Farewell for the Character:
‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ is a fitting farewell to Harrison Ford, who captivated fans around the world with his portrayal of Indiana Jones for nearly 40 years since 1981. A must watch for fans of adventure films who want to watch the film without giving their brain much damn.
Some characters seem to be made for certain actors. The actors who acted in them leave such an impact on the minds of the audience that we can never match them with anyone else. For example Hugh Jackman who played Wolverine and Robert Downey Jr. who played Ironman. Similarly, Indiana Jones from then to today is Harrison Ford. Even at the age of 81, he fits the role of adventure and comedy very well.
45 years of Indiana Jones :
We have seen a lot of characters that were created in the form of comics and 
then adapted into movies. However, the character was created as a screen character and later released in the form of comics due to the popularity it gained, the character ‘Indiana Jones’. Steven Spielberg adapted the story in the 70s by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman in 1981.
Harris Ford played the role of Indiana Jones in the film called ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’. After that, the Indiana Jones films, ‘Temple of Doom’, ‘The Last Crusade’, ‘Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ were released as successive parts. All these had Harrison Forte in the lead role. Currently, the last film in this series starring 81-year-old Harrison Ford is ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’.
How Does Indiana Jones and the Dail of Destiny End?
At the height of World War II, Nazi soldiers capture Indiana Jones and his friend Basil Shaw, a professor of archeology at the University of Oxford. The Nazis accuse the two of stealing a knife used to stab Jesus. But Jürgen Waller, a key member of the Nazi army, tells his superiors that the knife is a fake and instead he has found half of a clock by Archimedes that could make time travel possible. In the fight, Indiana Jones escapes by taking one half of the clock and saving his friend.
The first half hour of the film features a young Harrison Ford using T-Age technology. Body language and facial expressions have been carefully sculpted to the point that there is not even a small wrinkle. Apart from these 30 minutes of scenes, Harrison Ford comes across as an old man throughout the film. But at no point do we get to feel him as an old person and he is amazing as the same fake acting and action. Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Basil Shaw’s daughter Helena and Ford’s dialogues are very well written. Phoebe Waller Bridge would be an excellent choice if future Indiana Jones films were written without Ford.
It has chases and adventure scenes that are no less than or a step above the previous indie Jones films. Especially the way the chase scene in a vehicle like an auto rickshaw is shot is amazing. Road, sea, sky, the whole movie is chasing. But director James Mangold wins by making sure they don’t overdose in any way.
Instead of taking the film in the style of time travel and taking it only in a small part, the director has flawlessly given what Indiana Jones fans are looking for.
