A film that can be seen over and over again

Rating: 10/10 (12 February 2008)

Steven Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" plays something like an anthology series filled with adventure, dazzle, romance and thrills that it reminds me (forgive me, I'm excited) of the Nickelodeon show "Are you afraid of the Dark?" where every Saturday night as a child, an episode would scare the hell out of people wanting more for next week. That's what Raiders of the Lost Ark does from the first minute we hear the crack whip knocking down a weapon.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is a monument of 80's cinema where not only does Spielberg like to keep his audience riveted from his early days of "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," but introduces us a character filled with human emotions. And that character is Indiana Jones. The hero is an archaeologist professor where on his spare time he goes looking for artifacts out of the States and gets out beaten by his arch rival (played by Paul Freeman).
In this epic before the two sequels launched, Indiana Jones finds out that the actual ten commandments exist somewhere in Cairo, Egypt where it's just a matter of time before his rival and his team of Nazi's get a hold of the artifacts and use it for Hitler's domain where if the leader opens the Lost Ark, he would be able to have God on his side and control the world. Before going to Egypt, Indiana meets up with an old flame, Marian (Karen Allen), who has the medallion that can lead everybody to the ark. After the first attack, Marian and Indiana become partners in search of the artifact.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is not only an achievement in film, but in music as well. Steven Spielberg's music conductor John Williams puts the heart and soul of this movie using a mixture of thunderous and exciting adventure that it makes you want to rewind just to hear the music itself. I also laud the early special effects from the famous boulder ball chase to the climatic scene where even though most people would rather prefer the animals in Jurassic Park and today's technology, back then the people at least try to make some of the bad-ass special effects where they even won Oscars.
The first movie stands as the heart and soul of adventure where later we would have inspirations from Tomb Raider to Relic Hunter.
This is an 80's movie to treasure!