Pretty damn close to perfection

Rating: 10/10 (30 September 2000)

Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of those films that has earned every bit of success and critical praise it has been given over the years. It's the perfect adventure film, it raised the bar for the genre to such a high point, that I personally haven't been able to view any other movies of this type without making comparisons. But really, I can't think of any movies that have even tried to attempt to capture the excitement of Raiders. There have been other adventure films in the last twenty years, but none have really been on the scale of this, or any of the Jones films. The movie is a laugh riot on top of everything else. I was watching it not too long ago with my father, during the famous scene between Indy and the swordsman who takes a knife to a gunfight he remembered how the audience was in hysterics, how it was one of the biggest laughs he had ever had at a movie (I was too young to remember). This film inspires these types of memories in a lot of people, which pretty much guarantees its status as one of the greatest films ever made. But there had to have been high expectations at the time, from the director of Jaws and the creator of Star Wars, two of the highest grossing films of all time.
Yep, not much to be said about this one that hasn't already been said. So let me ask something. Why do so many people spend time summarizing the plot of this film in the "User Comments" section of IMDB anyway? Aren't there many places you could go to for the plot of a film? That's not really commenting on the movie if all you're doing is giving a greatly detailed description of the story with a quick, "I liked it!" at the end, is it? This really brings out the anal retentive in me. Oh well, looks like it's time for me to get a life. 10/10 stars, Raiders of the Lost Ark is a hum-dinger of a movie. Don't ask me what that means. I heard someone say it once and thought it was funny. G'night!