WCG and HDR - along with Dolby Vision - also work wonders, gifting the film the best colour scheme and tone that it has ever known, taking some of the cooler blues and excessive highlights present on prior SDR releases and balancing them with a much more authentic palette. This is a gorgeously remastered image, majestic and frequently freeze-frame worthy, and easily forgiven its fleeting faults. The markings on the log, the patterns on the snakes. Just watch as Indy descends into the tomb of snakes, the perfect balance of black levels and shades, rippling shuffling coils of slick serpent forms glimmering and reflecting the gorgeous glowing fires from the burning logs thrown in to gift a meagre safe landing zone. There's grain, sure, but it's so fine a veneer that you barely notice, leaving a wonderfully organic image that is still clearly from a near-40 year old flick - there are still hints of softness here and there, and it's not perfect - but absolutely defies time to leave it almost impossible to truly fault. The intricacy and design of some of them is exceptionally well realised here, as veritable grains of sand come to the fore. Ford's unshaven often pretty damn sweaty look, perfectly shaped hat and weathered clothing are all wondrously observed, along with the richly textured sets and locations, Tunisia standing out. Lavishly remastered, and lovingly restored with extensive work done to - almost imperceptibly - clean up and enhance some of the effects shots (before you get worried, we're mainly talking about removing some of the lines caused by the composite effects), the Indiana Jones set - much like the Back to the Future 4K Box Set - is an absolute joy to revisit, earning a new lease of life on the format, leaving it easily the best it has ever looked.ĭetail is stunning on this first entry, from the gritty, grimy tombs to the jungle foliage, the busy marketplaces and desert landscapes. an absolutely gorgeous native 4K image with Dolby Vision too An absolute all-time classic, and one of the greatest films of all time.

The dialogue is endlessly quotable, the performances inspired and enthusiastic, the set pieces wild and ambitious, and John Williams' score was utterly defining, with Spielberg still fresh enough to pull out the tricks in his magic box to make it all come to life with wow and wonder. Phillip Kaufman's story ideas and Lawrence Kasden's screenplay are genius, tying it all together for a flawless adventure which enjoys a slew of fabulously engaging characters - not just Ford's perfectly played Indy, easily his most iconic role, but also Karen Allen's bolshy Marion, John Rhys-Davis' bellowy Sallah and Denholm Elliott's suitably scatty Marcus, all facing off against a wonderfully enigmatic Paul Freeman as rival archaeologist Belloq.

Initially coming from just a sketch of scenes by Lucas and Spielberg, who had no script to tie them together, the end result is indeed a succession of memorable set pieces - not least the fabulous opening sequence, which has to be one of the greatest scenes of all time. The story introduced the world to Harrison Ford's inimitable Indiana Jones, a college professor who moonlights as a tomb-raiding archaeologist, and who crosses paths with some Nazis in a race to find the potentially all-powerful Ark of the Covenant. an epic, globe-trotting, rip-roaring adventure brimming with superb stunts and thrilling set pieces, and enjoying a fabulously witty script and iconic performances

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