I still Can't Decide: Raiders or Crusade?

Rating: 9/10 (17 April 2006)

I remember as a little kid always trying to stay awake watching Indiana Jones' movies, but never quite making it. When you are 7 years old, your attention span can only go for so long. However, when I reached my teen years, only then as I able to grasp how much of an impact the Indiana Jones' trilogy has impacted our culture and our movie going experience.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is the first and probably the most beloved entry in the series. I can't help but agree with many of those who praise it as the best, but then the awesomness of the Last Crusade creeps back into my consciousness. I can never decide which one is better, but for now this is a review on Raiders and not the Last Crusade.
Not needing the go into the story so much, as I am sure other reviewers already have, let me just that the action does not stop from the minute you see the boulder chasing Indy in the Amazonian temple. All the action sequences are fantastic, and Raiders, I must admit contains the better villains, especially the man in black whose name escapes me at the moment. The heroine, Marion, played by Karen Allen is also probably the best heroine in the series too. She is strong, humorous, and believably pretty. Of course, no one ca review Raiders of the Lost Ark and not mention the scene where the Ark is opened. I'd call that one of the top ten scariest scenes in cinema history.