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06/10/08
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
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Reviews Counted: 58
Fresh: 49
Rotten:9
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Filmmaker Steven Spielberg returns as director for this rip-roaring prequel to 1981's smash hit RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Here dashing, whip-wielding archaeologist-adventurer Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is joined by comely... [More]
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Reviews for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Top Critic
[T]he best of the Indiana Jones movies...it's insanely wonderful, in every sense of those words.
05/25/08
It lacks the sense of detail that made Raiders such a treat. It isn't very clever, very funny or very compelling.
05/22/08
The reality is that this is the film that comes closest to reflecting the racism, sexism and jingoism that fuelled most of the serials that originally sparked Spielberg and George Lucas's impressionable young imaginations.
05/21/08
Where the brilliant "Raiders" was an adventure film aimed at the child at heart, "Temple of Doom" is really designed for the kiddie market itself.
05/21/08
If it was a sign of the times for Indiana Jones to take on more of a comic-book aspect, the film's accomodation of darker themes and explicit imagery came as something of a shock to many.
05/14/08
...makes you wonder if Spielberg and series producer George Lucas might have been going through some sort of drug phase.
05/07/08
While The Temple of Doom is a bit gloomy, puts children in danger, and confines its action primarily to one spot, it's still quite entertaining.
05/07/08
A breakneck adventure that moves at twice the pace of the original but has only half the creative strength.
05/05/08
Fantastically choreographed action sequences and another comely companion for Indy (Capshaw) and gloriously overdone visual devices make up for the shameless lack of plot.
05/05/08
Pic comes on like a sledgehammer, and there's even a taste of vulgarity and senseless excess not apparent in Raiders.
05/05/08
Top Critic The film betrays no human impulse higher than that of a ten-year-old boy trying to gross out his baby sister by dangling a dead worm in her face.
05/05/08
Top Critic Though not as thrilling as Raiders of the Lost Ark, the second chapter still has merits, particularly its fast pacing, spectacular opening scene, and visual effects, which won the Oscars in 1984.
04/29/08
...it's cathartic as hell, for Spielberg and for those of us who go for the ride. The mayhem is transporting, inspired, exultant...
11/07/07
Set years before the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is sillier, darkly violent and a bit dumbed down, but still great fun.
12/28/06
Top Critic Part of the trouble is that anything clearly does go, including the slender hold on credibility that Raiders managed to maintain.
06/24/06
I honestly think this edgier prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark does an even better job of being a non-stop rollercoaster ride than the original.
02/16/06
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