‘Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny’ Review: Indy’s Final Adventure Packed With Action And Nostalgia – Cannes Film Festival

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There must be 50 ways to escape a Nazi. Over the 2 hours and 22 minutes of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, we see Indy and his ragtag entourage drive planes, trains and automobiles through the streets of New York, Tangiers and somewhere picturesque in Sicily, hijack two getaway tuk-tuks, ride a horse at full pelt through the New York subway tunnels, and fly a vintage plane through a “time fissure” to land right in the middle of – well, we can’t say too much, but the kind of place and time that would be Indy’s idea of Shangri-la. “Too many Nazis!” growls Indy, just before he leaps from a speeding train hundreds of yards down into a churning river.

Sometimes, the essence of being an adventuring hero is to know when to put the bullwhip down and get out of Dodge. Dial of Destiny is the first installment in the swashbuckling archaeology franchise since Indiana Jones ventured to the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008 and, given Indy’s and Harrison Ford’s ages, surely the last.

Crystal Skull was generally regarded as an attempt to drive the old-school comic-book aesthetic of the Indiana Jones concept into the new world of action spectaculars.

The lackluster result got the thumbs-down from critics and a lot of fans. It lacked that appealing aroma of cheap seats at the Saturday matinee. RELATED: Read All Of Deadline’s Cannes Reviews The latest Indiana Jones is also anything but artisanal: it could give late-vintage Fast and Furious a very, very speedy run for its money when it comes to spectacular (and spectacularly ludicrous) SFX stunts.