Wonderful character development!

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

What can I possibly add to what has already been written? This film is a "masterpiece". It's placed in quotations because that word is bandied about on here for films that aren't fit to lace this movies' boots. This movie should be preserved for all eternity as a template on how to make an incredibly entertaining and wonderful film, and as I said earlier, there isn't much I can add to what has already been said about Raiders. Let's just say that there are only so many films I plan on introducing to my children when they get old enough and this film is amongst that list. Harrison Ford was amazing in the titular role, and the supporting cast added immense scale and brevity to the work HF was doing as Indy. Spielberg and Lucas created a character and movie for the ages.Keep an eye out for one of the most iconic film sequences of all time as well!Make sure that you give this film the rating and love it deserves. Thank you for reading!

I have been on IMDB for many years now, but I have decided to do my first film review on the greatest film of all time. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) is a great adventure, romance, and 80's film that has remained an icon ever since its initial release. Harrison Ford does it again, first with Han Solo, and now with Indiana Jones. His charismatic presence and tough charm solidify him as a relatable yet spectacular hero that you cant help but fall in love with. The score and soundtrack are also breathtaking, putting you right next to Indy on his many wild adventures for holy and ancient artifacts. You will find yourself smiling, gasping, and cheering by the end of this spectacular journey that is nearly the beginning.

Frankly one of the best movies ever made! The plot, the excitement, the acting - it's all brilliant! Definitely the best Lucas film ever made, and definitely one of Spielberg's best. It leaves the viewer feeling quite exhilarated and exhausted - in a good way. Indiana Jones - in his first (chronologically second) movie adventure - must jump into action to save the Ark of the Covenant from being found and taken by the Nazis, who want to use it for world domination. The film is not historically accurate, but quite fun nonetheless.

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)