Indiana Jones And The Dial of Destiny review: Saga ends with a whimper

Indiana Jones And The Dial of Destiny
CERT: 12A, Out Now | ★★★✩✩

This is the first Indiana Jones movie not to be directed by Steven Spielberg or written by George Lucas. Instead what is expected to be the fifth and final film in the series is directed by James Mangold, feted for Girl Interrupted and Walk the Line.

The year is 1944 and we are are in Germany. American archaeologist Indiana Jones, played by a digitally de-aged octogenarian Harrison Ford, and his colleague Basil Shaw plan to recover artefacts stolen by the Nazis.

In this they are successful. The intrepid pair retrieve one half of the Antikythera, an ancient dial built by Archimedes, from the hands of Nazi scientist Jürgen Voller, who is brilliantly played by Mads Mikkelsen.

Fast forward 25 years and Jones is feeling uneasy that the US authorities have recruited former Nazis to help beat the Soviet Union in the Space Race.

One of them is, you guessed it, Voller, Now a member of Nasa who is involved in the Apollo Moon-landing programme, the villain is also intent on getting the dial back. His quest pits him against Jones for a second time.

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Harrison Ford (Photo: Disney)