His hat is back. His whip is back. His ophidiophobia – that’s fear of snakes – is back. And, briefly, as the film begins, so is Indiana Jones’s youth. Nevertheless, for all the unremitting action, this is a finale that, like its protagonist, is definitely showing its age.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny opens with Harrison Ford’s great adventurer back in war-torn Germany, fighting those pesky über-looting Nazis and – thanks to the de-ageing CGI used by Martin Scorsese in The Irishman – Ford is miraculously young again. The de-ageing is less troublesome than some of the other CGI, which is at times risibly rough.
