Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford 'deeply moved' by Cannes Film Festival award

Indiana Jones prima Harrison Ford said helium was "deeply moved and humbled" arsenic helium received an honorary Palme d'Or astatine the Cannes Film Festival connected Thursday.

The 80-year-old US histrion was presented with the grant up of the premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial Of Destiny.

His last crook arsenic the intrepid whip-toting archaeologist was among the astir highly anticipated of the festival.

Ford said the quality helium archetypal played successful 1981's Raiders Of The Lost Ark had been a large portion of his life.

"They accidental erstwhile you're astir to dice you spot your beingness flash earlier your eyes," said a tearful Ford, aft audiences were shown a item reel of his vocation earlier the movie began. "And I conscionable saw my beingness flash earlier my eyes.

"A large portion of my beingness but not each of my life," helium added, earlier thanking his wife, Ally McBeal histrion Calista Flockhart, for "supporting my passionateness and my dreams".

In his fifth-and-final outing astatine the enactment hero, Ford stars alongside Mads Mikkelsen and Fleabag writer and histrion Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who plays his character's goddaughter.

Addressing the assemblage directly, helium continued: "You've fixed my beingness intent and meaning and I'm grateful for that. So grateful to person the accidental to enactment with others similar Phoebe and Mads.

"I americium profoundly moved by this honour, and humbled - but I got a movie you gotta see. So fto maine get retired of the way."

While its prima received a rapturous applause for his vocation achievements, the movie itself got lone a "lukewarm" - by Cannes standards - five-minute applause astatine the end, according to Variety's Zack Sharf.

Set successful 1969, against the backdrop of the abstraction contention - successful the years betwixt erstwhile films the Last Crusade and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - it finds its protagonist erstwhile again warring Nazis.

The Guardian's Pete Bradshaw awarded the "taught" movie 3 stars, saying it had "quite a spot of zip and amusive and communicative ingenuity with each its MacGuffiny silliness that the past 1 [Kingdom of the Crystal Skull] truly didn't."

He praised Waller-Bridge - who was calved 4 years aft the archetypal Indiana Jones movie - for her "tremendous co-star crook arsenic Indy's roguish goddaughter Helena Shaw, who wears shorts and garment making her look similar a grownup, naughty Enid Blyton heroine".

"And successful information immoderate astonishing integer youthification effects springiness Indy himself a large opening flashback conception backmost successful the 2nd satellite war," Bradshaw added.

And portion helium felt it was "probably a spot cheeky to beryllium giving Ford a young pistillate co-star nether this 'goddaughter' tag," the finale, helium said, was inactive "wildly silly and entertaining".

"Indiana Jones inactive has a definite old-school class."

The reviewer stressed however "the signifier and the gleam of it mightiness beryllium superficially convincing for a bit, but the shabbier craftsmanship gets each the much glaring the longer you look."

He added that "the movie is loaded with mayhem but painfully abbreviated connected spark and bravado: there's nary changeable here, nor twist of choreography, that makes you marvel astatine the filmmaking caput that conceived it."

There was different two-star reappraisal from Kevin Maher of the Times, who said: "The bully quality is that it's not arsenic mediocre arsenic Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The atrocious quality is that it's not overmuch better.

"Ford, contempt each this, remains connected charisma overload. Even erstwhile the instrumentality astir him is connected autopilot, helium brings his weathered gravitas to possibly his astir important character. Inevitably he, and Indy, deserved better."

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny marks the archetypal movie successful the franchise not to beryllium directed by Steven Spielberg, with James Mangold (The Wolverine and Ford v Ferrari) taking the reins instead.

The director, who besides antecedently made Girl Interrupted and Walk the Line, said helium was aiming astatine the "best version" of what his puerility hero, Spielberg, had done with the 4 erstwhile films.

Spielberg, helium told the AFP quality agency, "has been a leader of excavation each my life", adding: "I saw the archetypal Indiana Jones movie erstwhile I was 17. It's a large seat to beryllium in, but it was besides a immense idiosyncratic opportunity."

He said the caller movie was "me benignant of emulating my mentor and trying to archer a story," adding: "Of course, it's inactive me, and not him."

The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney opined that the movie had "a consciousness of thing written by committee". He said it "does person is simply a saccharine blast of axenic nostalgia successful the closing scene, a invited reappearance foreshadowed with a mates ocular clues aboriginal on."

However, helium added that "part of what dims the enjoyment of this concluding section is conscionable however glaringly fake truthful overmuch of it looks".

"The enactment is slickly handled by Mangold, not slightest a thrilling tuk-tuk pursuit done Tangier. But champion of all, this is an Indiana Jones movie with tears successful its eyes. We spot the quality has grown older, but not needfully wiser.

"Drinking a spot excessively much, he's afloat of regrets astir pursuing luck and glory and leaving his loved ones behind."

Ford told the aforesaid movie mag past period that this would beryllium "the last movie successful the series" and "the past clip I'll play the character."

And portion Disney is processing a TV series, Ford confirmed: "I volition not beryllium progressive successful that, if it does travel to fruition."

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is retired successful UK cinemas connected 30 June.