My First Review.

Rating: 8/10 (25 November 2019)

And this time I'm gonna do it differently! I've watched 43 minutes with 54 still to go but I've built a firm feel for the film and a surprising notion seems to be stuck in my head: this feels like an Indiana Jones film. A bit of humor, some nasty baddies... it's all there. In some odd fashion, THE COLORS look like they're from The Last Crusade. (And I mean this in a very positive way.) How crazy does that sound? Even the score resembles that 'building up to a swashbuckling adventure' kind of thing so familiar from the Indiana Jones films (without ripping off). And this leads to my main point: that beautiful sense of adventure the Jones flicks had this one has too - galley loads of it. It's a nice throwback of sorts, into a time when movies were fun and thrilling at the same time. By this I mean mainly and most recently the 80s. I don't wanna count in CGI-induced child's plays as the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and others on this list of adventure films (entertaining as they are) coz... I just don't. Maybe a movie or two of the new Disney-owned Star Wars franchise has that special sense of... perhaps a naïvity and innosence in the fun and adventure - as did the first Star Wars films. Without rambling any further I'm gonna recommend this for the whole family of 1 or 10 or 11 even as I'm just getting ready to see the rest of the film. Maybe I'll revisit my review later on and give you a recommendation as to where the movie stands when considering families the size of 2-3; 4-9; 1+ cat and/or dog.