With Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny now in theaters, DT ranks all the Indiana Jones movies from worst to best.
It’s the final countdown for Harrison Ford and his portrayal as a master adventurer and professor of archaeology, Indiana Jones. Ford will reprise his role as Indy one final time in the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Directed by Logan’s James Mangold, Indy squares off against the Nazis again, but this time, it’s 1969 amid the space race between the United States and Russia. His mission: retrieve the Archimedes Dial, a time travel device, before it gets into the hands of Jürgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen), a former Nazi working for NASA.
It has yet to be seen if Dial of Destiny will be a worthy swan song for Ford. However, the previous four films, especially the original trilogy, will live on forever. There’s a timeless aspect to Indiana Jones movies where the Raiders, Temple of Doom, and Last Crusade still look great and don’t feel dated despite being filmed in the 1980s and set in the 1930s. Before we add Dial of Destiny to the rankings, here are the previous four Indiana Jones movies ranked from worst to best.
Note: All four films are available to stream on Disney+ and Paramount+.4. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is last on most (if not all) Indiana Jones rankings. Kingdom of Crystal Skull relies too much on CGI, taking away the authentic feeling of the stunts provided in the first three films. Lucas, Spielberg, and Ford argued quite a bit about the direction of the fourth film. Lucas’ decision to introduce interdimensional beings in the Kingdom of Crystal Skull was ineffective and head-scratching. It was a decision Spielberg fought against before his loyalty to Lucas won out. Indiana Jones is about religion and archaeology, not aliens.
However, Kingdom of Crystal Skull is not that bad.
