Indy is back! There are riddles! There are Nazis! There’s an ancient treasure with mystical powers! And I don’t mean Harrison Ford, who at 80 gives a bravura performance in what is surely his last outing as the adventurer with the leather jacket and battered hat.
He can still make sharper cracks than his famous whip. And he can still throw a punch or two. There is much mayhem, a mind-bending plot, friends old and new, stunning locations and an ending that may bring a tear to the eye.
The series has been epochal in movie making since George Lucas and Steven Spielberg launched Raiders of the Lost Ark into the world back in 1981. Audiences loved the explorer tales of mystical artefacts and exotic backdrops that mixed James Bond travelogue, 1940s movie serial cliff-hangers and a sprinkling of riddles and Nazis.
