Surprisingly incoherent and boring

disgusting, overrated, pointless

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This movie has everything: action, a good cast, humor, a wonderful soundtrack (John Williams) a good pace and a good script. I watch this movie like 2 or 3 times a year and it still fascinates me. Thank you for this masterpiece mr. Spielberg! They don't make movies like this anymore!

Indiana Jones is about the Nazi's trying to find the lost ark. Indiana Jones try's to stop them.Indiana Jones is a great ilm. It is more like a comic book film. They actually wanted to use loud and fun effects for the movie. The score was a massive part of this film. This score is one of John Williams best. Also the acting is amazing. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones was the best choice. Karen Allen did a great job too. Paul Freeman as the Nazi leader did great. He was a funny and mean at the same time.Indiana Jones is one of the best movies of all time. It was also done by two of the best actors of all time.

In the action/ adventure genre I believe Raiders of the Lost Ark is the yardstick by which all other films should be measured.There simply was not an action/ adventure film made before this which is as good, and there has not been one since (although the sequels came close).Everything here works, there is nothing wasted. Nothing to bloat the film and make it boring, nothing to slow down the pace and nothing unnecessary. RotLA cracks along at a good pace, but occasionally gives the viewer time to breathe before we are off again on another leg of the adventure. This is action movie making at it's very best, the cast, direction, cinematography, score, locations, story, everything is just perfect. Everyone involved in making RotLA brought their "A-game" to the table, and it shows. RotLA is such an evocative film, from the opening jungle scene, to the Cairo markets, to the outline of Indy against the sunset as they dig for the Well of Souls, to the final "storage room" scene. The images Spielberg created here are masterful, the score by John williams complementing them perfectly. The action is pure edge-of-your-seat stuff, and there are a good few laughs thrown in too.I was around 6 or so when I first ever saw it and I was blown away. I am still blown away every time when I watch it now (I am now 41). A modern classic in every sense of the word, one that is far superior to the mindless cookie-cutter tripe that is churned out pretty much every week in cinemas 37 years later. It really fascinates me how people can say that Raiders is for "kids with no brain" and give it a poor rating. These are probably the same people who turn up at the multiplex each month to see the next Marvel film, which is just the same as the last Marvel film, but with a slightly different character.Nothing else to say really, if you haven't seen Raiders then see it. You can thank me later!

Movie Review: "Raiders Of The Lost Arc" (1981)This Hollywood Movie, just shot in 35 days under Steven Spielberg iron-focused directions at the age 34, released in the wake of two "Star Wars" movies already put on the market through George Lucas' company Lucasfilm Ltd. and 20th Century Fox to fulminate successes in attendance, especially on the U.S. domestic market of summer 1977 and 1980 respectively, comes an about-to-become legendary character of Indiana Jones aka Henry Jones Jr., portrayed undeniable by humor-as-action-beats alike joy-sharing actor Harrison Ford, at age 38, owning the show from the very first minute in classic Hitchcockian-suspense-indulging intension of visual delay; presenting the leading character's close-up after a string of over-the-shoulder primal shots, accompanied with the instant-ear-triggering score of composer John Williams, when Indiana Jones must chase down an alley of traps to escape certain death after stealing an ancient relic from a Peruvian indian temple scenario, before nemesis character-building actor Paul Freeman as Belloq intervenes the leading character's triumph.Director Steven Spielberg takes the shooting draft by Lawrance Kasdan based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman, known for strong dramatic features as "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" (1988); Spielberg at the point of life-or-death proportions as young filmmaker, who recovers from giving-in to some creative risks in selecting his predecessor project "1941" of shooting season 1978/1979 under a astronomic 35 Million Dollar production budget for that particular time period of Hollywood filmmaking to an over-populated War-comic-action-movie; "Raiders of the Lost Arc" has luckily the contrary result of being stunningly paced in an 110-Minute-editorial by long-time Spielberg-collaborator Michael Kahn with precisely interweaved shot angles and camera motions created by cinematographer Douglas Slocombe (1913-2016), letting Steven Spielberg's directorial signature of connecting two-to-three single shots into one favorably been witnessed, when a burning Sibirian pub sound-stage-scene goes havok in reflecting white snow ambience lead Indiana Jones to meet his one-and-only archeaologic-side-kicking female support the character of Marion, performed by eternal-feminine-convictions-sharing actress Karen Allen, over to further military truck chases on North African desert roads to snake-pit high-suspense sequences of adventurous Nazi-fist-fighting and pistol-shoot-outs without forgetting constant infusions of audience-pleasing moments of thrills, romance and humor.Producer Frank Marshall provides a reduced-to-tight production budget of estimated 18 Million U.S. Dollars for second-chancing Director-"Wunderkind" Steven Spielberg, who accumulates all his powers for this motion picture in favor for a television-paced shooting schedule in an exceptional fast-turn-around to a major release for Hollywood Studio Paramount Pictures on June 12th 1981, when further international expansions took another four and a half months to reach West Germany on October 29th 1981, striking reminiscence in connection with Bavarian Co-production "Das Boot" directed by Wolfgang Petersen of sharing the same real-life-sized submarine property of "U96", repainted "U26" for "Raiders" in order tp provide both pictures with long-term cinema-historical fame, honored with six Academy-Award-Nominations for "Das Boot", including Best Director and Best Cinematography in 1983, and eight Academy-Award-Nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director in 1982, when four trophies get won for this technical as entertainingly flawless Action-Adventure-Movie, prevailing the test of time.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)