'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (Steven Spielberg, 1981)

Title: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

Release Year: 1981

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronal Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott.

Plot: Archeologist Indiana Jones is entrusted with a dangerous mission: finding the Lost Ark that contains the fragments of the Ten Commandments before the Nazis do it, as it's thought that they grant an enormous power those who possesses them.

Review: As it was the first installment of a very successful franschise and had Spielberg directing it, I was waiting for an entertaining action movie with a complex, well-structured story. No, no and no.

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (which I chose over 'Blade Runner' in what it was a clear bad decision) is a weak blockbuster that lacks the strength of other franchises. It's usually not as funny as it should and contains many plot forgetable topics. First of all, it is a film really based on the idea that Nazis would risk their lives to find the Ten Commandments believing that they would achieve an incredible power? Really? It has little credibility. Moreover, although Ford's Indiana is well acted and has enough human weaknesses (like his fear of snakes) to connect with the audience, his love story with Marion is quite predictable, not offering much new challenges (which doesn't exactly mean that I dislike it).

A Harrison Ford at the top of his career was chosen to star as Indianda Jones in Spielberg's film. It was critically and economically successful, although for me it has been a major disappointment

This way, the first Indiana Jones' film unfolds as a quite dull and unrealistic adventure with a limited success as it sometimes even fails to entertain younger audiences.