Film review: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Plausibility

An old old film, which I've not seen before. Read wiki for details. Nominally an action-adventure film it is many respects more of a comedy or a cartoon; somewhat in the mode of Star Wars, which is hardly surprising as Lucas is involved. Sometimes the implauibility is stretched so thin that you can't possibly be expected to believe it, like when Our Hero survives a long ocean voyage on the outside of a submarine. Although surviving a snake-pit full of slow-worms and small pythons seems entirely plausible. Although that the snakes haven't all starved long ago in the middle of a lifeless desert seems less likely.

Wiki's While [Lucas/Spielberg] had ideas for set pieces and stunts for the film, they hired [a writer] to fill in the narrative gaps between them pretty well explains things. It is two hours long. And towards the end it begins to drag a little, because it is turning into one thing-following-another, and when they finally open the ark I was grateful we'd nearly got there.