Nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, and winner of four Oscars, Raiders Of The Lost Ark is one of those rare commercial smash hits that also manages to win widespread critical acclaim from even the most hardened of film critics. After all, any film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by George Lucas has to be an ingenious creation, right? In this case, absolutely. Not only is Raiders Of The Lost Ark one of the more memorable films in history, but its lead character Indiana Jones will go down in history as one of, if not the, most beloved hero in movie history…
Renowned archeologist and college history professor Indiana Jones (expert in recovering ancient objects) is approached by the United States government in regard to retrieving one of the greatest treasures in human history - the Ark of the Covenant. The government fears the Ark will fall into the wrong hands seeing as how Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich are feverishly searching for the Ark themselves…
With a hefty knowledge of the history involving the Ark, Jones sets out to borrow an amulet instrumental in the Ark's discovery from family friend and ex-lover Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen). But the Nazis also seek the amulet, and Jones arrives just in the nick of time. Now Marion and Indiana will have to work together if they have any hope of saving the Ark from the evil clutches of the Nazi regime. In so doing, they encounter countless Nazis, booby traps, double-crossers, and the worst element of all - snakes!
With an original score by John Williams (Jaws, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, etc.), the theme song from Raiders Of The Lost Ark may well be one of the most recognizable in the history of cinema. Williams's genius is present throughout every scene of the film (which is one of Spielberg's greatest triumphs - getting Hollywood to place greater emphasis on sound and music, i.e. emotion, the same as it does for dialogue, character, plot, etc.) Raiders Of The Lost Ark also features the underrated actress Karen Allen (Animal House, Scrooged, The Perfect Storm, etc.) whose career has spanned parts of four decades. In this film, she shines as the headstrong love interest of Indiana Jones…
Home to Harrison Ford's breakout role, Raiders Of The Lost Ark features the up-and-coming Hollywood talent at his best. Although Star Wars placed Ford in the limelight, Raiders Of The Lost Ark puts Ford in the lead role - where he belongs. A likeable man, exhibiting unrivaled onscreen charisma, Harrison Ford adds the final touches of genius to a film that is as close to perfect as any movie can come. Don't miss out on this first glimpse of Indiana Jones. A brilliant tale of heroism and adventure, Raiders Of The Lost Ark is a definite must-see movie…
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Street Kings is the story of a rogue crew of LAPD cops that managed to find a way to have free range of the city of Las Angeles. Having free range means that they could practice questionable police tactics without having fear of recourse or fear that they themselves will ever go to jail.
Will Smith has some how re-invented himself again. I compare this movie to Cast Away with Tom Hanks were he spoke to a Wilson soccer ball for almost 2 hours. Somehow, he kept everyone entertained. The same goes for Will Smith, but instead of a soccer ball, he talks with his German Shepard that was left behind by his son. He also has a few counter parts in manikins that he also converse with throughout the movie.
David Finchers rendention of the Robert Graysmith books about the real life notorious Zodiac, a serial killer who terrorized San Francisco with a string of seemingly random murders during the 1960s and 1970s is chilling to say the least. The story line moves very fast with no let up. Scene after scene builds on the last as David Fincher build the suspense of what could have happened and what should have happened. I loved this movie but I have to admit I am not so much the horror type. So, some of the scenes really touched me, some to the point that I had to look away. But I loved the way the main characters constructed a case till the point they got to sit down and look the so called killer right in the eye.
Let me start by saying that Forest Whitaker played a hell of a part in this movie. He was very convincing and even scared me as I sat down eating my popcorn. He was unpredictable and showed a personality that could be friendly in one moment and dangerous in the next. But who decided to have this movie be shown through the eyes of a wife taking, womenizing white man.
Did someone actually say that this film was worth seeing? Who are these people? I don't know how I could put this film into words. Here it is, "IT JUST SUCKED". From beginning to the end I was amazed at how one movie could pull someones spirit so far down and not care to bring it back up to even a smigit close to were it began. 
The movie was set in the war torn Yugoslavia of Eastern Europe during the late 1990s. A young navigator pilot on board a military aircraft carrier was bored of the unexciting routine flights and planned for an early retirement from the US Navy.What was meant to be another routine flight over a demilitarized zone at the borders of Yugoslavia suddenly turned into a dreadful experience when his plane was shot down and his pilot friend murdered by a mercenary sniper attached to the Serbian army. The "downed" navigator soon became a victim trapped in a web of war and suffocating politics, relentlessly pursued by the mercenary sniper as well as the Serbian army under the command of a merciless Serbian general. The general was determined to cover-up the perpetrated genocide of the Bosnian population by recovering the digital photographs of the mass graves taken from their fighter jet plane during their failed reconnaissance mission.
