For the fifth and final time, Harrison Ford takes on hat and whip as Indiana Jones, playing the most famous archaeologist in film history. Ford is now over 80! Can this go well? SWR3 cinema critic Anna Wollner does the check!
Now everyone please hum along to the legendary title tune. dr Indiana Jones is back in Indiana Jones and the Wheel of Destiny. And Harrison Ford still stars. With a main actor who is now over 80, one can ask oneself, however, whether this still works at all. After all, Indiana Jones has always been action cinema. To put it another way: does Indy aka Harrison Ford still have it?
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And yes, he has – without a walker! However, the film also plays with age a bit. Right at the beginning there is a flashback to 1945 and we are on a train full of archaeological finds that were stolen by the Nazis. For these scenes, Indy was digitally rejuvenated. Then a jump to the year 1969. Professor Henry Jones is sent into retirement and is presented with an adventure on a silver platter by his goddaughter Helena: She wants to find the lost parts for the “Wheel of Destiny”. However, Indy says to her casually: “I am now retired.” Only to ask why she wanted to find this thing that drove her father crazy.
But of course both go in search of the wheel of destiny a little later. And the way there is peppered with the typical Indiana adventures: A chase in a tuk-tuk through Marrakech, for example, or exploring a grave including an insect attack.
Still on horseback over 80: Harrison Ford also plays Indiana Jones in the last part of the series. However, our film critic Anna Wollner thinks that it works quite well.
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The second big question: Will the last part lead the film series to a worthy conclusion? The fourth part “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” could not really convince fans and critics and only has a very average rating of 6.2 on IMDB.
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Movie review: How good is Indiana Jones and the Wheel of Destiny?
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Our film critic saw the new part of the Indiana Jones series for you and thinks the film is a worthy conclusion to the cult series.
But with the new film, the series finds a forgiving conclusion, because it’s simply better than part four 15 years ago. Harrison Ford at 80 is full of self-mockery. There are great one-liners, story and action pay homage to the 80’s classics. But there is also a rejuvenation with Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a female side kick.
Conclusion: “Indiana Jones and the Wheel of Destiny” is not a grandiose, but a worthy departure for the series.