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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Paramount Pictures

Lucasfilm Ltd.

United States of America

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Harrison Ford

Kate Capshaw

Ke Huy Quan

Amrish Puri

Roshan Seth

Philip Stone

Roy Chiao

David Yip

Ric Young

Chua Kah Joo

Rex Ngui

Philip Tan

Dan Aykroyd

Akio Mitamura

Michael Yama

D.R. Nanayakkara

Dharmadasa Kuruppu

Stany De Silva

Ruby de Mel

Denavaka Hamine

Iranganie Serasinghe

Dharshana Panangala

Raj Singh

Frank Olegario

Ahmed El Shenawi

Arthur F. Repola

Nizwar Karanj

Pat Roach

Moti Makan

Mellan Mitchell

Bhasker Patel

Arjun Pandher

Zia Gelani

Debbie Astell

Maureen Bacchus

Corinne Barton

Carol Beddington

Sharon Boone

Elizabeth Burville

Marisa Campbell

Christine Cartwright

Andrea Chance

Jan Colton

Louise Dalgleish

Lorraine Doyle

Vanessa Fieldwright

Brenda Glassman

Elaine Gough

Sue Hadleigh

Sarah-Jane Hassell

Samantha Hughes

Julie Kirk

Deirdre Laird

Vicki McDonald

Nina McMahon

Julia Marstand

Gaynor Martine

Lisa Mulidore

Dawn Reddall

Rebekkah Sekyi

Clare Smalley

Lee Sprintall

Jenny Turnock

Ruth Welby

Yash Agnihotri

Dickey Beer

Kenneth Coombs

Sidney Ganis

Billy Horrigan

Kathleen Kennedy

Brad Kesten

Alex Klaus

Katie Leigh

Patrick Loh

George Lucas

Tress MacNeille

Frank Marshall

Anthony Powell

Steven Spielberg

Guy Standeven

Ron Taylor

Gloria Katz

Jane Feinberg

Marci Liroff

Mike Fenton

John Williams

Douglas Slocombe

Willard Huyck

Michael Kahn

Mary Selway

Robert Watts

Ben Burtt

Tom Brown

John Watson

Paul Huston

Richard Vane

Phil Tippett

Philip Kaufman

Chris Webb

Vic Armstrong

Peter Howitt

Dennis Muren

Jan Jamison

David Tomblin

Reg Harding

Wendy Leech

Colin Skeaping

Louis G. Friedman

Denise Ryan

Malcolm Weaver

Lynda Gurasich

Glenn Randall Jr.

Peter Robb-King

Richard Mills

Colin Jamison

Graeme Crowther

Wayne Michaels

Doug Robinson

Tip Tipping

Roy Button

Carlos Gil

Yvonne Curry

Louis Race

Greg Powell

Kevin Donnelly

Frank Henson

John Webber

David Bracknell

Hilary Haines

Donna Keegan

Tom Smith

Connie Reeve

Felix Silla

Nick Hobbs

Chuck Waters

Jason White

Steve Harding

Michael D. Moore

Andy Bradford

Rocky Taylor

Tom Elliott

Elliot Scott

Dean Raphael Ferrandini

Terry Forrestal

Ted Grossman

Marietta Gillman

Barry Wilkinson

Ross Reynolds

Roger Cain

Bruce Green

Alexander Courage

Michael Hook

Drew Struzan

Dave Chagouri

Steve Hamilton

Bob Hollow

Brian Morrison

Rodger Shaw

Joss Williams

Michael Dawson

Potential Kermode

**The best film in the series**

_Raiders_ was great but suffered patches of slowness where the momentum was damaged - I know people who actually fast forward Raiders when Indy and Sallah discover the Well of Souls and begin watching the film again at the plane fight sequence.

_Temple of Doom_, however, is a non stop rollercoaster ride - a thrilling, violent and funny adventure. Spielberg's best action film, in my opinion. Violence, horror, sentimentality, thrills, comedy - _Temple_ has it all! _And more_!!!

John Williams provides a superb Indian infused score performed beautifully by the ever reliable _London Symphony Orchestra_  probably my favourite musical score of the series too. Indy takes a severe beating in this adventure, famously losing his shirt sleeve in the process - whereas in the toned down Raiders rehash, _Last Crusade_, he merely gets a bit of dust on his hat.

A great whirlwind of energy this film is. Love it!

- Potential Kermode

Gimly

Simultaneously both more grim and more silly than the Indiana Jones films either side of it, _The Temple of Doom_ was my favourite of the series as a kid. As an adult though, it seems it is objectively the worst movie in the trilogy, but damn if there isn't a lot of memorable parts to love about it.

_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

Spielberg on devilishly OTT form!  

Prior to the long mooted and eventual release of part 4, Temple Of Doom was often thought of as the weakest part of the series, yet it actually appears to me to be maturing nicely with age. With honest appraisal I see the only crime that Temple Of Doom can be charged with is is not being as good as Raiders Of The Lost Ark. But since few films can match that movie's classic status I find it churlish to do the second film down for it.

Temple Of Doom is a frenetic roller-coaster ride, full of enough crash bang wallop fit to grace any action adventure in the history of cinema. The set pieces are pure outrageous fun; life raft escape from a crashing plane, mine cart thrill ride & a bridge sequence that is pure boys own brilliance. And while the film finds Spielberg cramming the action with a darkly sinister streak (hence the PG13 rating), we find that the fun still far outweighs any horror that junior viewers might get from certain scenes.

The film also finds Ford giving his best performance as Indiana Jones since the plot calls for a more humane Jones. In fine physical shape, his witty interplay with Short Round is coupled with a textured feel of friendship that plays real well up on the screen. Kate Capshaw was always going to struggle to get close to Karen Allen's wonderful turn as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders, for where Marion was feisty and tough, Capshaw's Willie Scott is more scare-d-cat and reliant on Indy's guile to save her from peril, but she does OK and looks gorgeous into the bargain.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was a massive hit at the box-office and firmly bought Spielberg the time to then go out and make two dramas in Empire of the Sun (1987) & The Color Purple (1985). He would then return with the third Indiana film to finish what was then a marvellous trilogy; of which Temple Of Doom is the prime piece of meat in the delightful (original) trilogy sandwich. 8.5/10

Kamurai

Decent watch, might watch again, and can only recommend for people who are already big Indiana Jones fans.

This is a much cheaper movie than it's prequel, not in budget, but in writing and characters.  With the trade out in female co-leads, Willie is an annoying if not irritating character and the movie might actually be improved if you just edited her out of the movie.

Short-Round is fun, but not to any degree to go as far as saving the movie.  The atmosphere of the movie is darker than it is funny where it matters.

I'm not saying it's a bad movie by any means, but I'm not a big Indiana Jones fan and this is definitely the worst of the 4 movies.

CinemaSerf

Sadly, this chose to go down the route of child stardom - which you either love or hate. Though "Short Round" (Ke Huy Quan) wasn't as irritating as many; he was still pretty persistently annoying and for my money helps make this quite a bit weaker. Aside from the elephant, this also lacks the depth of casting that the first of the films had - Kate Capshaw is almost slapstick as "Wille Scott" and the story isn't so hot, either, as our intrepid explorer has to try and track down some ancient stones that - along with their stolen children - are crucial to the agrarian lives of many peaceful citizens. The roller-coaster finish is still the stuff of Hollywood legend, though - and the films is a classy, well put together tale of clashes of culture with a healthy dose of mysticism, colonialism and Ford certainly has charisma to spare. Good fun, just not quite "Raiders".

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