![]() Why go to all these lengths establishing her brilliant mind if she just wants to stage an auction for some fez-wearing antiques collectors? It’s a dim way to waste the intellectual awe she might have contributed. The problem with Helena isn’t the fact that Waller-Bridge is playing her, at all – she’s bright, cocky, spirited and pretty game through all the whirlwind action, impersonal as it gets.īut the character’s thuddingly basic motivation sells her out. The film isn’t a disaster, but it’s certainly a disappointment the same is true of her character. She’s Indy’s goddaughter and a learned archaeologist in her own right, conversant with immense swathes of world history, fluent in any language you can mention (as well as ancient cryptography).īut the second she’s got her hands on the titular relic – an instrument called the “Antikythera”, sometimes called the oldest analogue computer – what does she do? She heartlessly leaves her crestfallen godfather to the mercy of neo-Nazi thugs in New York, and swans off to Tangier to sell this gizmo to the highest bidder. “I’m in it for the money!” is the rather dismaying refrain of Helena Shaw, the character Phoebe Waller-Bridge plays in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. ![]()
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