The genre defining adventure film

Rating: 10/10 (16 January 2005)

There have been movies in the past that have defined their own genre. Such as The Godfather defined the new style mob movies, Star Wars defined the new style of Sci-Fi movies, and then Raiders Of The Lost Ark defined a new type of action adventure.
In Raiders Of The Lost Ark, we see a daring adventurer named Indiana Jones(Harrison Ford) seek to find the ark of the covenant before the Nazis can get their hands on it. This is the type of movie where the adventure never stops.
In the opening scene we see Indiana in South America. In that scene we see him escape a collapsing tomb, jump across a ditch, get shot at by arrows, get chased by a giant bolder, and then have a bunch of local natives chase him to his plane as he makes a narrow escape. That was only the opening scene. Later on in the movie we see him in a shootout in a bar in Mongolia, getting attacked by ninjas in Cairo, and several other perils such as a pit full of cobras, an airplane landing strip getting ready to explode, an exciting car chase, and so much more in his daring quest to find the ark of the covenant. Along with him are his friends Marion(Karen Allen) and Sallah(Lord Of The Rings's John Rhyse-Davies).
Raiders Of The Lost Ark is the ultimate in genre defining action and has been copied many times, but has never been bettered.