Though it is the 1st film in the Indiana Jones series, but I watched it after Crystal Skull & Temple of Doom respectively. So the monotonous chases were obviously boring for me though I must appreciate Spielberg's signature style in which each tense situation follows another and the time passes with the audience being quite unaware of the same.
Here Indy is in search of the Ark of the Covenant, the chest believed to contain the remains of the Ten Commandments, built by the Israelites. For this he required the headpiece of the staff of Ra that will show the path to the Ark, that was believed to be hidden somewhere in Cairo. In this chase Jones teams up with his embittered past lover Marion who is again the daughter of his dead mentor Avner Ravenwood and also seeks the able help of the Egyptian digger Sallah, the best man in the job and tries to win the race against a Nazi agent Toht helped by the French archaeologist Belloq. Though Jones recover the chest but it changes hands several times and a pursue on sea adds to the thrill. At the climax when Indy & Marion are roped and Belloq performs the ceremonial opening of the Ark, Jones asks Marion to keep eys shut as he correctly knew that supernatural will cause those watching to die immediately. Thus the opening of the chest kills the villains and the Ark again closes by itself. Though Jones is informed by Army intel that the chest is being investigated upon but actually it is shown to be sealed in a crate and stored among countless similar crates in a secret government storehouse. Thus the secret is never revealed.
There was one error that I found defied justification and that was while excavating for the chest when Jones found the secret basement room, from above it was seen to be filled with Egyptian asps, of which Jones was too afraid of. To drive them off Jones climbed down in the middle and sprayed petrol on the snakes and then applied fire to them. I think the same could have been done from above without undue risks that Jones took by it and how this simple procedure is overlooked by an extremely cautious man is quite non-understandable to me.
Here Indy is in search of the Ark of the Covenant, the chest believed to contain the remains of the Ten Commandments, built by the Israelites. For this he required the headpiece of the staff of Ra that will show the path to the Ark, that was believed to be hidden somewhere in Cairo. In this chase Jones teams up with his embittered past lover Marion who is again the daughter of his dead mentor Avner Ravenwood and also seeks the able help of the Egyptian digger Sallah, the best man in the job and tries to win the race against a Nazi agent Toht helped by the French archaeologist Belloq. Though Jones recover the chest but it changes hands several times and a pursue on sea adds to the thrill. At the climax when Indy & Marion are roped and Belloq performs the ceremonial opening of the Ark, Jones asks Marion to keep eys shut as he correctly knew that supernatural will cause those watching to die immediately. Thus the opening of the chest kills the villains and the Ark again closes by itself. Though Jones is informed by Army intel that the chest is being investigated upon but actually it is shown to be sealed in a crate and stored among countless similar crates in a secret government storehouse. Thus the secret is never revealed.
There was one error that I found defied justification and that was while excavating for the chest when Jones found the secret basement room, from above it was seen to be filled with Egyptian asps, of which Jones was too afraid of. To drive them off Jones climbed down in the middle and sprayed petrol on the snakes and then applied fire to them. I think the same could have been done from above without undue risks that Jones took by it and how this simple procedure is overlooked by an extremely cautious man is quite non-understandable to me.
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