Latest (and last) film succeeds at intermittently recapturing some of the magic of the original. I’d call that a win
With him is Toby Jones as Basil Shaw, a name that makes the actor about 3.14 times more bookish and British than he already seems. Against him, the remnants of the Third Reich, led by Jürgen Voller , who is that most dangerous beast, a Nazi with ambition. “You didn’t win the war,” he delights in telling Americans decades later. “Hitler lost it.” Clearly he thinks he could have done better.
But in this movie, the so-called Dial of Destiny is suspected of having even greater powers. Cut to 1969 New York, where Indiana, having just retired from his teaching job, receives a visit from Basil’s daughter Helena, played by Phoebe-Waller Bridge.
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