Yesterday belongs to us, Doctor Jones.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny — 3/5

It was fun! It made me remember these things were supposed to be fun. In my intellectual-ass 20s, I think I grew to expect more from these movies, but they really are just excuses to have fun and fall in love with a new character. They found a character motive to explain grumpy-ass Harrison Ford. Phoebe Waller-Bridge was Phoebe Waller-Bridge and I enjoy her very much and only ask that she continue doing what she does. Mads made for a good villain, calm with motive, composed with purpose. The Object of Great Importance had that air of 'I read about that in a book in middle school' and thus was invested in following the little story they made up about it. But very flawed, yes, oh yes. Go here, do this, now go here and do this other thing. Could have combined some of those, I should think, instead of feeling like some Da Vinci Code-ass shit. Antonio Banderas is in this movie for some reason? Mads just dies. All the villains just die.  The first 15 minutes had me pissing my pants in anger at how stupid things looked, and how unnecessary it all was. But friends, when they were approaching that time warp and the seed of doubt was introduced... I don't think I've had as much fun at the movies since seeing that home video alien appear out of the bushes in 'Signs.' Edge of my seat. Eyes glued. So, fuck the flaws, I enjoyed spending money to see it on a big screen. 

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And just in case anybody stumbles upon this site with the power to pay me to repair scripts — let the seeds of doubt about the time warp only be doubt. Land back in WW2 and have Indiana Jones fight to save Hitler's life. C'mon, it'd be fun.