Love Adventure Films? You'll Love This!

Rating: 9/10 (10 June 2008)

The year is 1936. A professor who studies archeology named Inidana Jones is venturing in the jungles in South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap doing so, miraculously, he escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Renee Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it.
I finally got the chance to see this film when I bought the box set of the first 3 Indiana Jones movies and I would like to compare it to two other action franchises released in this time: The Mummy and National Treasure. Now anybody who knows me knows that I loved National Treasure and The Mummy. Both films are really enjoyable and thrilling at times!
Well, Indiana Jones feels that way. The action is there and the comedy is there. It's all done perfectly. Well, this film is certainly not flawless but it's a lot of fun and the characters in here are memorable. Harrison Ford and Karen Allen are great together as the duo.
The one liners aren't even painful to hear! The set pieces are fantastic. However, I must say the action sequences are really dopey and sometimes dumb but they are tolerable. Overall, it's a really entertaining action adventure film where characters deliver one liners and make up wise cracking jokes.