John Maguire: Indy’s latest adventure is well-crafted and shows the value of relics like our hero
Octogenarian Harrison Ford makes his final appearance as the death-defying Indiana Jones in this entertaining adventure
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, directed by James Mangold; nationwide, 12A; rating: ***
At one point in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth instalment of a mostly beloved franchise that defined the 1980s blockbuster, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s character makes a crack about how “we’re all stealing from each other, and that’s capitalism!”.
The theft – or perhaps more politely, the homage – started when Steven Spielberg and George Lucas recruited Harrison Ford to play the kind of square-jawed hero from the film serials they loved as children; part Tarzan, part Flash Gordon. It continued when the kinetic thrills and breakneck spills of Raiders of the Lost Ark went on to influence an entire generation of Hollywood action film-makers.
