It is Summer 1938. Three years after the events of The Ark of the Covenant.
Archaeology professor Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford) and museum curator Dr. Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott) are invited by Walter Donovan (Julian Glover) to his mansion. Donovan is a generous donator to the museum. He has discovered fragment of an ancient stone marker dating to the 12th century. Indy reads the marker, and to his surprise it details "the cup that holds the blood of Jesus Christ" - the Holy Grail, whose can grant immortality.
Donovan's project team is now searching for the second marker, left behind by a knight who had found the Grail, somewhere in Venice. Unfortunately the project leader and all his research have vanished. To Indy's surprise, the missing project leader is his father Professor Henry Jones, Sr. (Sean Connery). Indy suddenly remembers the brown paper package from Venice – his dad's diary, which contains map and information about the Holy Grail.
Indy and Marcus fly to Venice to meet Dr. Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody), his father assistant. They go to where Henry Sr. disappeared, the Venice library, which was once a church in ancient Roman times. Indy discovers that the library is the tomb of the knight. Indy digs the floor and finds a tunnel. Exploring the tunnel with Elsa, Indy finds an ancient casket and a knight's shield, the second marker. Indy learns that his father is imprisoned in a castle in Germany.
Indy and Elsa fly to the German castle and rescue Henry Sr., but Indy is betrayed by Elsa and Walter Donovan. Indy and his father are imprisoned in the castle but they manage to break out and escape from German soldiers. They go back to Berlin, where Donovan and Elsa take the diary for Hitler. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis plan to use the Holy Grail for global world domination for their super-race. Indy treks to Berlin, finds Elsa, and takes the diary back.Director : Steven SpielbergAwards : Won Oscar
Rating : 10/10
It is Summer 1935. One year before the events of "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
It is late night in Hongkong. The legendary Archaeology professor Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford) confronts Lao Che, a Chinese gangster leader, in a nightclub. They are trading an artifact from the Ming dynasty emperor. After the trading fail, the gangsters won't let Indy get out of the nightclub alive. However, Indy escapes from the gunfight along with his two friends, a night club singer Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott and a twelve-year-old boy "Short Round".
They sneak up aboard a freight plane and escape from Hongkong – unaware their plane and the two pilots belong to Lao Che. Over the Himalayas, the pilots dump the fuel, and parachuting out of the plane. Indy discovers the plane start to dive and the engines fail. Indy and friends jump out of the plane and they survive a 300-feet free fall.
After crash landing in India, they meet an old Indian shaman who leads them to an Indian small distressed village where people are starving and dying. The villagers believe that evil spirits have taken all their children away after a sacred precious stone was stolen. Indy figures out that the missing stone is one of the Sankara stones, which are supposed to have a great magical power.
Agreeing to help the villagers, Indy and friends start the mission to Pankot Palace, a gigantic palace on the top of the mountain. The palace belongs to a peaceful young Indian prince who assures that no such action occurred from his palace. The Prime Minister Chatter Lal offers them to spend the night in the palace.
However, that evening Indy finds a secret underground cavern that lead to an ancient temple known as the Temple of Doom. The temple once house of the Thuggee, a terrorist cult that he thought was long extinct. The Thuggee’s psychopathic high priest, Mola Ram used to kill his victims by tearing their hearts out alive as sacrifices to Kali - the Thuggee god of death. The Thuggee has kidnapped the children from the village and enslaved them in the underground mine to dig for the magic stones. The Thuggee believe that with the power of all five Sankara stones they can rise once more and rule the world.
Director : Steven Spielberg
Awards : Won Oscar
Rating : 10/10
It is Spring 1936.
Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford) is a renowned Archeology professor. One day while Dr. Jones is teaching an archeology class in the university, two agents from U.S. Army Intelligence are waiting for him at his office. They tell him that the U.S. Army has intercepted a German cable concerning about Nazi German archaeological activities in Egypt, including a large excavation site near Cairo.
When they read the cable, Dr. Jones and his friend, a museum curator, Dr. Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott) realize that the Nazi German might have discovered Tanis, an ancient city buried in a sandstorm in 980 B.C. and the possible burial site of The Ark of the Covenant. The Ark was built by ancient Hebrews to hold the stone tablets on which Moses inscribed the Ten Commandments. The Ark is believed to carry an incredibly powerful energy that must not fall into Nazi’s hands.
Indy is immediately sent overseas. But he doesn’t realize that he is followed by a Nazi agent, Major Arnold Toht (Ronald Lacey). Indy flies to Nepal to meet Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), his former professor's daughter. Indy needs the headpiece of The Staff of Ra, which is owned by Marion. The crystal will help him to determine the exact location of the Ark.
After escape from Major Toht and the Nazis, Indy and Marion fly to Egypt to meet Indy's friend, Sallah (John Rhys-Davies), who is working on the Nazi’s excavation site near Cairo. Sallah reveals that the Nazis are helped by Dr. Rene Belloq (Paul Freeman), a French archeologist who is a longtime rival of Indy's. Sallah takes Indy to see a shaman who can reads the Ra headpiece. Using the Ra headpiece, the shaman identifies the precise location of the Ark's actual burial site, which is known as the Well of Souls.
Waiting until night, Indy and Sallah sneak into the Nazi excavation site and digging to the location of the Well of Souls. They find a secret chamber that is full of dangerous snakes. Indy burns the snakes with flaming gasoline and clears the area with burning torches. They eventually find the Ark. But it is dawn now. The Nazis are surrounding the site and closed off the area. Indy and Sallah are left trapped inside the chamber. They find an opening on the wall and climb up to the surface.
Colonel Dietrich and the Nazis transport the Ark to Cairo. Indy chases the convoy and seizing the Ark. Indy takes the Ark by ship back to the America, but the Nazi submarines intercept the ship. The Ark is –once again – taken by the Nazi. Dr. Bellog opens the Ark, but the Ark contains nothing but sand, the remains of the stone tablets. Suddenly from inside the Ark appear the spirits of the Ark and attack the Nazis. The energy of the Ark surges forth killing the entire soldiers and destroying Dr. Bellog’s body into pieces. The unleashed energy mass now surges high into the sky.
Director : Steven Spielberg
Awards : Won 4 Oscars
Rating : 10/10
Genre : Action, Drama, Romance, War
Pearl Harbor is a drama movie set during the time of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) and Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett) are childhood best friends in America. They grow up wanting to fly planes. They are now serving as pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps. They both find themselves in love with the same woman, a dedicated U.S. Navy nurse Evelyn Johnson (Kate Beckinsale).
During World War II, Capt. Rafe McCawley is selected to go fight with the British Royal Air Force in Europe while America is still not at war. Meanwhile, Capt. Danny Walker and Nurse Lt. Evelyn Johnson are transferred to Pearl Harbor military base.
In Europe Rafe is shot down in an air combat and presumed killed. Danny and Evelyn are getting married but, Rafe turns up alive. On December 7, 1941 Japanese bombing to Pearl Harbor has changed all of their lives forever.
Director : Michael Bay
Awards : Won Oscar
Rating : 6/10
Genre : Action, Adventure, Drama, War
180 AD. Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) is dying. Before die he wants to return his Roman Empire back to the Senate-based government. Although Emperor Marcus Aurelius has a son, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), he decides to appoint temporary leadership to General Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe). Commodus is very jealous with this decision. After murder the Emperor, Commodus declares himself as the new Roman Emperor.
Commodus asks Maximus for his loyalty but Maximus refuses. Commodus orders the Roman Armies to murder Maximus' wife and son and the entire family. Maximus escapes and races home but he is late. He discovers his family's death bodies hanged upside down in the ruins of his villa. After burying his wife and son, Maximus collapses because of exhaustion.
Slave traders’ convoy found Maximus and sells him to Proximo (Oliver Reed), the owner of a gladiator school in North Africa. Desperate because of the death of his family, Maximus refuses to fight. But later as he trains and fights further, the excellent combat skills plus the experience from many battles when he was General in Roman Army make his popularity rising among the fellow gladiators and the audience.
At the Colosseum in Rome, Commodus held the gladiator tournament. Maximus and the companies of gladiator from Proximo's school are participating. The final battle is between Maximus against Tigris of Gaul (Sven-Ole Thorsen), the Rome's only undefeated gladiator, in an arena surrounded by chained tigers. Maximus defeats Tigris in an intense battle and win the tournament.
After the fight, Maximus meets his former servant Cicero (Tommy Flanagan), who reveals that Maximus's elite army remains loyal to him. They are camped outside Rome and waiting for his order. Maximus plans to reunite with his army and overthrow Commodus. Commodus however reveals the plot and sending a legion of Praetorian Guards to destroy Proximo's gladiator barracks. Hagen (Ralf Moeller) and Proximo are killed in the siege while Juba (Djimon Hounsou) and the survivors are imprisoned.
Commodus challenges Maximus to a one-on-one duel in the Colosseum in front of Roman citizen. Commodus stabs Maximus on the chest. The blade is piercing deep into his heart and puncturing his lung. The wound is bleeding beneath Maximus’ gladiator armor. He lost much blood. Maximus collapses and dies.Director : Ridley Scott
Awards : Won 5 Oscars
Rating : 9/10
