Harrison Ford returns as the legendary hero archaeologist in the highly anticipated (or not) fifth instalment of the iconic Indiana Jones franchise – for the first time directed by James Mangold.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny unfolds in 1944, during World War II, when American archaeologist Indiana Jones and his colleague, Basil Shaw, are in Europe to recover artifacts stolen by the Nazis and are to stop Jürgen Voller, a Nazi scientist, from obtaining the Archimedes Dial, a device capable of time travel.
Twenty-five years later, Jones is uneasy over the fact that the U.S. government has recruited former Nazis to help beat the Soviet Union in the Space Race. He is about to be forced into retirement from his teaching position because of his opposition to the practice.
Jürgen Voller, now a NASA member and ex-Nazi involved with the Apollo Moon-landing program, wishes to make the world into a better place – as he sees fit – by obtaining the dial, once again pitting him up against Jones.
Basil’s daughter and Jones’s goddaughter, Helena Shaw, accompanies Jones on his ‘journey for the dial’…
While Ford reprises his role as the world-renowned globe-trotting archaeologist and college professor, Phoebe Waller-Bridge makes her Jones franchise debut as Helena Shaw, as does Mads Mikkelsen as this edition’s bad guy (insert evil laugh here); Jürgen Voller.
Dial of Destiny is the only film in the series that is neither directed by Steven Spielberg nor written by George Lucas, with both serving as executive producers instead. This outing was co-written by the director and Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth and David Koepp. It is also the only film in the series not to be distributed by Paramount Pictures, following Disney’s acquisition of Lucas film that transferred film rights for future sequels.
Showing at Palace Cinema and Ballina Fair Cinema.
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