Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1981
	Director: Steven Speilberg (Jaws, E.T., Jurassic Park)
	Actors: Harrison Ford (Star Wars 4-6, Blade Runner), Karen Allen (Starman, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Paul Freeman (Centurion, Hot Fuzz), John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings 1-3), Alfred Molina (Spiderman 2)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Adventure
	Conditions of visioning: 01.01.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Part-time professor, part-time adventurer, Indiana Jones (Ford) is launched in a race against the Nazis during WWII to find the mythical Ark of Alliance.
Review: The frst movie of the series is now thirty years old! My favorite might be Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, but then this one comes close second. It had everthing to make a hit in the 80's: Spielberg and Ford at their top, a lot of adventure, fights against the Nazis, mysticism. The quality of the recent Blu-ray edition is impressive (faces, landscapes, sound), an excellent job has been done at restauration, supervised by Spielberg himself. It was said that Spielberg copied videogames in tis movie (plateform games at the beginning when Jones has to avoid traps one after the other). I find it normal, it is cyclical, videogames have then been influenced by movies in the years 2000, and now we are back to movies looking like video games! The story, actors and filmmaking are good. The biggest reproach I have is about the music. I never noticed before that the soundtrack from John Williams was often not so good or innapropriate. Some moments without music would have been better appreciated. I have now to watch the much less known Temple of Doom.
Rating: 7 /10