Excellent adventure film but not the best ever

Rating: 8/10 (29 September 2012)

This movie consists of 110 minutes of pure escapist fun. That's the shortest accurate description of it: Its a flawless adventure film, vastly superior to its mediocre sequels (specially the Crystal Skull one a film mediocre par-excellence).
The film takes place in the late 1930′s and opens with Indiana Jones, a professor of archaeology which also does "freelance work" by robing ancient sites of its most valuable possessions, captures an invaluable Inca gold statuette. Later the film progresses to the main plot: the Nazis appear to have discovered the general location of the Lost Ark, which is said to house the actual 10 commandments. The film then progresses around the conflict of finding and possessing the Ark.
So, if the film is flawless why not give a perfect score? Because, although it is excellent, the film does not reach greatness to the point of really making me say: "what a f*cking great film", after seeing it. Its perfect entertainment, but it is not the greatest adventure film ever made (to me, Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky is the greatest adventure film ever made, superior to this one in nearly every respect).