Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is a serviceable, if disappointing, end to Jones' journey.
promoting the new movie, his apparent shyness in interviews and fan interactions wasn't, as had been suggested, anxiety.
Instead, it's an unwillingness to take part in what the rest of us are increasingly forced to, as COVID-era telework is cancelled in favour of inane small talk: "No, I don't have a social anxiety disorder," he told the publication when the subject came up. "I have an abhorrence of boring situations."
So as he shuffles through lines in the fifth Jones movie entry with all the roguish vitality of Noam Chomsky in a fedora, Ford's low energy can't entirely be ascribed to the fact that the 70-year-old character he's portraying is actually a decade younger than he is.
But like all Indy adventures, here they're pitted against a shadowy cabal of esoteric-obsessed Nazis. Starting the action mid-Second World War on a German resupply train, we're introduced to a young Jones and sidekick Basil Shaw as they attempt to liberate the Nazi-stolen Lance of Longinus — a holy item purported to have been used in the killing of Jesus.After discovering the item is a fake, their attentions shift to another object in Nazi possession: the Antikythera.
It also catches the attention of villain Dr. Jürgen Voller , igniting a race to both halves of the machine that quickly jumps forward in time to 1969. There, a worse-for-wear Jones is living the typical life of the final-installment action hero à la
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