Wonderful Escapist Entertainment

Rating: Null/10 (10 December 2014)

Raiders Of The Lost Ark is a movie that is in just about everyone's list of top ten favourite movies, & many people's top three. The first 10 minutes of the movie showing Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) in the Peruvian jungle in search of a golden statue is an absolute blockbuster of an opening. Back home teaching in his college in the USA, where he is a professor of archaeology, he learns about the Ark Of The Covenant from museum curator Dr. Marcus Brody (Denholm Eliot). Brody informs him of the power of the artefact ("An army carrying the Ark is invincible") & that Nazi Germany also is searching for it. So begins Indiana Jones quest for it. What follows may be somewhat far-fetched at times, but no-one could deny its marvellous escapist entertainment value. Director Steven Spielberg must have spent many of his boyhood hours at his local cinema showing Saturday matinée movies, because it shows in his Indiana Jones trilogy & many other of his films. He fully deserves his reputation as the king of modern-day escapist movies.