Overrated

Rating: 4/10 (27 April 2013)

Raiders Of The Lost Ark is widely regarded as the quintessence of the adventure-action movie. However, there is so much to say about it is hard to understand how it can be such highly considered.
Everything isn't bad. There are, in particular, very good actions scenes such as the opening scene or the one in the temple with the snakes, and some well thought-out touches of humour. But we are under the impression that the plot is secondary, in fact you forget about it after some time, and that it is just a pretext for blowing us away with those action scenes, like blockbusters do nowadays.
The flaws are obvious, from the shallow characters to the choppy rhythm or the mediocre editing with a lot of jump cuts or continuity errors. A few extremely far-fetched scenes also discredit the movie.
Raiders Of The Lost Ark is therefore far from perfect and certainly cannot pretend to the rank of masterpiece some give it.