'Do you call this archaeology??'

Rating: 9/10 (11 January 2001)

This movie is what we all waited for - an update on adventure-movies like 'The Adventures of Robin Hood', 'The Crimson Pirate' and so on.
We have a great hero, played flawlessly by mr. Ford, the utter villains (obviously the nazis) and the quest for the most holy object - the Ark of the Covenant. Who can ask for more??
When I started reading SF, Fantasy and adventure-books a lot of years ago, I didn't think that movies could create the same pictures in my mind as the books, but in this instance I was clearly wrong. Though movie-technology has moved ahead drastically, there are not so many heavy special-effects here (apart from the Island-scene), It's all in the script! Wonderful.
He's not too convincing as an archaeologist, though (I am one).
10/10