Every Indiana Jones Movie, Ranked

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark isn’t just the best film in the franchise, and when The Dial of Destiny comes out, it’ll still be the best one, but it’s also the best adventure film ever made and one of the greatest movies of all time. The introduction to Indiana, set in a Peruvian temple and featuring the famous boulder escape, sets the stage for the rest of the film, which introduces the principal players, the stakes, and then takes off and never stops.

Filled with iconic moments, from shooting the swordmaster to Toth pulling out a bizarre device, seemingly for torture…that turns into a coat hanger…and then the famous face-melting scene. Raiders of the Lost Ark perfected the Indiana Jones formula the first time out, and it will never be surpassed, it’s always a question of where the other films fall in order behind it.

From globe-trotting to punching Nazis, Raiders of the Lost Ark has been a success every decade since its release; from setting records for VHS sales to being a hit Blu-Ray release, no adventure film will ever come close to being as good as Indiana Jones first outing.