Father Time casts his long shadow over Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and not just because the 42-year-old action-adventure franchise, now in its fifth instalment, was already old-fashioned – a throwback to Buck Rogers and other serials of the 1930s – when Raiders of the Lost Ark debuted in 1981.
Nor is that ticking clock you hear merely echoed in the sound of news reports that this film will be the last outing for Harrison Ford (81