Of course this is my opinion. But this to me is the greatest action-adventure film ever made. I admit, I have serious nostalgia associated with this film, as it was probably the first movie I actually remember going to see in the movie theater as a kid. It was on a late-summer night in the Oak Bluffs theater on Martha’s Vineyard (the filming location of another Spielberg classic, coincidentally…)
I work in the film business now, and have to give this movie at least some credit for my choice in careers.
Harrison Ford is the definition of iconic as Indiana Jones. Then add the film’s exquisite pacing, the atmosphere, the exotic locales, the epic score, the absolute villainy of the villains, the peril, the unknown biblical forces, the goddamned bureaucrats, the snakes!! karen allen as the ‘not-to-be-messed-with' heroine… and the unstoppable hero that was Indiana Jones. I never tire of watching this film.