Can't beat Indy Jones

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2000)

* * * * * (5 out of 5)

Raiders Of The Lost Ark

Directed by: Steven Spielberg, 1981

George Lucas wrote and Steven Spielberg directed. There you go.

Raiders is a groundbreaking, exhilarating and rugged action-adventure, that literally set a new standard at the time, while it also payed homage to the old time swashbuckling Hollywood movies in grand style.

Filled with wit throughout, a great story, some unbelievable and awe-inspiring stunt work, a wonderful and inspired cast lead by Harrison Ford, Karen Allen and Paul Freeman, and Raiders is as good as it can possibly get.
From camera work to dialogue, from backdrop use to editing, from coloring to effects, this is truly inspired entertainment.

Ford totally embodies the role of Indiana Jones with his charming never-say-die attitude, bull-whip and omnipresent fedora hat (he did most of the stunt work himself too), and it is important to state that the movie would have suffered immensely had Ford not been chosen (Tom Selleck was originally cast).

Also; check out the fluidity and ease with which Spielberg directs. Amazing.

This is how you do it. If nothing else how about that musical (John Williams as always) score? You will know it when you hear it. Trust me.