One of my top five films

Rating: 9/10 (14 January 2005)

This is possibly the greatest action/adventure movie that has ever been made. If you've seen it, you'll know what I'm talking about. If you haven't, then where have you been for the last twenty years? It's got everything you go to see a film for: heroes you're rooting for through every chase and fight scene, villains you absolutely love to hate (the Nazi leader played by Ronald Lacey is particularly slimy), adrenaline-pumping edge-of-your-seat set pieces right from the word go, jokes that rarely lose their dry sense of (albeit occasionally clichÃ©d) humour, and a quite literally heart-stopping climax. I'm studying this film as my genre and narrative coursework for Film Studies and can safely say that I never get tired of watching it no matter what mood I'm in. Plus there's something about Harrison Ford in that fedora that's undeniably attractive...