Best movie ever!

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

I was so amazed to see a movie like this from those days of 1981. Spielberg magic...!!

Indiana Jones is about the Nazi's trying to find the lost ark. Indiana Jones try's to stop them.Indiana Jones is a great ilm. It is more like a comic book film. They actually wanted to use loud and fun effects for the movie. The score was a massive part of this film. This score is one of John Williams best. Also the acting is amazing. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones was the best choice. Karen Allen did a great job too. Paul Freeman as the Nazi leader did great. He was a funny and mean at the same time.Indiana Jones is one of the best movies of all time. It was also done by two of the best actors of all time.

In the action/ adventure genre I believe Raiders of the Lost Ark is the yardstick by which all other films should be measured.There simply was not an action/ adventure film made before this which is as good, and there has not been one since (although the sequels came close).Everything here works, there is nothing wasted. Nothing to bloat the film and make it boring, nothing to slow down the pace and nothing unnecessary. RotLA cracks along at a good pace, but occasionally gives the viewer time to breathe before we are off again on another leg of the adventure. This is action movie making at it's very best, the cast, direction, cinematography, score, locations, story, everything is just perfect. Everyone involved in making RotLA brought their "A-game" to the table, and it shows. RotLA is such an evocative film, from the opening jungle scene, to the Cairo markets, to the outline of Indy against the sunset as they dig for the Well of Souls, to the final "storage room" scene. The images Spielberg created here are masterful, the score by John williams complementing them perfectly. The action is pure edge-of-your-seat stuff, and there are a good few laughs thrown in too.I was around 6 or so when I first ever saw it and I was blown away. I am still blown away every time when I watch it now (I am now 41). A modern classic in every sense of the word, one that is far superior to the mindless cookie-cutter tripe that is churned out pretty much every week in cinemas 37 years later. It really fascinates me how people can say that Raiders is for "kids with no brain" and give it a poor rating. These are probably the same people who turn up at the multiplex each month to see the next Marvel film, which is just the same as the last Marvel film, but with a slightly different character.Nothing else to say really, if you haven't seen Raiders then see it. You can thank me later!

What a movie. It is unbelievable to me that this was done in 1981. It is just excellent. Very advanced effects for the time too.