Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny * * *

It's what you'd expect.

It's big and spectacular, with all the Indiana Jones formula: Naughty Nazi's, a pretty girl and a cheeky endearing adolescent.

The first third of the film is set in WWII.  They miraculously de-age Harrison Ford to make him look forty years younger.  They also get a couple of good stunt men to make him look like he's punching up Nazi's by the dozen and surf riding on a train roof whilst cracking his whip.  It's what you'd want.

Humph!

Cut to the sixties and he is an ageing college professor on the cusp of retirement. He learns that one of his precocious students is the daughter of a fellow professor. She keeps going on about recovering the second half of some device that Archimedes cobbled together thousands of years ago.  It allows you to move through time apparently.  Makes sense.  

Some old Nazi wants to get his hands on it too. so he can go back in time and change the outcome of WWII.   So the chase is on.

It moves through time and it moves through countries. It has fun at Indiana Jones expense with old man jokes etc:  and in the end all this time shifting provides a much happier outcome for Indiana in his retirement.

It's a fun afternoon at the multiplex. Big screen is the way to go with this one.