A STUNNING PERFORMANCE Harrison Ford stars alongside Phoebe Waller-Bridge as they try to locate the Dial of Destiny

My generation was about seven years old when we met Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford) on the big screen with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and now, after four decades, the fifth and final film, Dial of Destiny, is showing at cinemas nationwide. If you must spare ₱400 to ₱500 pesos for a movie ticket, it is worth it.
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas served as executive producers while Ford v Ferrari director James Mangold handled the screenplay and direction of this latest adventure franchise. Legendary John Williams composed the musical score again as he did for the other Indiana Jones films.

It is a nostalgic experience to see Indy digitally de-aged in the opening sequence during World War II as he fights back the Nazis and gets the Dial of Destiny in an action-packed chase scene while rescuing his friend, Basil Shaw (Toby Jones).
Nazi agent and astrophysicist Jürgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen) is the ultimate villain that our hero will cross paths with again in the late 1960s.

Back to reality with wrinkles and a grandfather’s body, Indy is a retiring professor and a “boring” archaeologist, who is grumpy with his neighbors and always ready to take a fight using a baseball bat with the young tenants in his apartment building! The zest for life is disappearing as he receives divorce papers from his wife. But Indy has kept Marion’s (Karen Allen) photo on his refrigerator door.

He meets his godchild, Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), at a bar and recalls her father Basil’s obsession with the Dial. Indy promised his deceased friend that he would destroy it but he kept it in the school archives.

Helena has another plan—to steal the Dial, auction it at the black market, and become crazy rich. Her problems with the underground crime syndicate become godfather Indy’s problems too. There is another chunk of the Dial located on the Aegean Sea that the two plan to “hunt.”

ONE LAST TIME Harrison Ford, at the age of 80, returns to play Indy one last time in the fifth installment of the franchise, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

There are touching moments in the 154-minute film when Indy shares to Helena about his son enlisting in the Vietnam War to piss him off. The loss of Mutt has put an end to his marriage to Marion. Helena gently chides him, “You’re still wearing the ring.”

Jürgen is keen on getting the Dial to use it for time traveling to change the course of history. He knows the mistakes of the older Nazis and he wants to bring Germany back to its former glory and lead his country to another victory.
Will Jürgen be given the opportunity to correct Adolf Hitler’s past “mistakes?” We hope not.

Breakout star Ethann Isidore plays Teddy, a loyal assistant of Helena, who even pilots a tuk-tuk and an aircraft to save our protagonists.

When Indy meets the Greek inventor Archimedes in “time travel,” he wants to stay in that period telling Helena to get on the plane and leave him. Helena pleads with him that his work is not done. Desperately she pleads to Archimedes, “He needs to go home.”

When one is at the lowest point of life with age, time, and broken family relationships battling our hero, there is no choice but to escape. “I will be all right,” Indy tells to Helena. “I need to do this.” But the funny thing, Helena also has another plan.
As an audience, let us surrender to Indy’s fedora, bullwhip, leather jacket, and charm. This is the last time we will see Harrison Ford play our adventurous archaeologist. The world continues to change but our Indy remains the same—our hero.