Review of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) by Diana D — 27 Apr 2013

You can tell any movie is a masterpiece if it passes the test of time and boy, does Raiders of the Lost Ark passed it with distinction.

It's still an immensely entertaining ride, filled with gorgeous settings, smart and light jokes, good characters, nice sense of adventure and mistery and just plain fun while it lasts, never taking itself very seriously. It's also shockingly violent at times and couldn't help but feel it that that violence is a bit out of place. The tense sequences involving snakes and deadly traps are much more effective than that bit of sleazy violence, but since this is a tribute to all adventure movies that happened before it, even to shlock b trash, it only adds to the mythos like a pro.