Harrison Ford reaches stardom

Rating: 10/10 (12 June 1999)

"From the creators of Jaws and Star Wars": Reading that, the audience could expect the best on screen, and the fact is that they got it.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of numerous Steven Spielberg's masterpieces. Spielberg proved with that movie his capacity to combine critical and public success. This first chapter of the Indiana Jones trilogy has become a classic. It is one of the rare pictures that give you intense pleasure. The two stars of the movie are certainly the hero, incarnated by Harrison Ford, and the action sequences. Harrison Ford gives his most famous performance. First reveled by Star Wars, he undoubtedly becomes a star with that role.
The movie is an incredible succession of stunts, an extraordinary ride that captures our imagination. It is a movie very comparable to Star Wars and its sequels, a magical film. Like in Star Wars, music plays a major role. John Williams's march is one of his most famous works. And the movie is one of the marks that Steven Spielberg will let on the Earth, as a top filmmaker in cinema history.