Review of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) by Moviemaniacs — 06 Mar 2016
Lucas and Spielberg botched the second installment, 1984's Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom. After a great opening in a Shanghai nightclub, Ford lands in a remote Indian outpost where a revived Thuggee cult engages in slavery and human sacrifice.
Temple suffers considerably for working on a less ambitious scale, saddling Ford with a shrill heroine (Kate Capshaw, stepping in for the vastly more appealing Karen Allen) and engaging in the worst kind of exoticism.
(Foreigners are weird, backward, and dangerous, and they eat gross food.) But the clumsy attempts at darkness are what really spoil the fun. All the shots of emaciated children laboring away under threat of death make Temple feel less like a Raiders sequel than a warm-up for Schindler's List.
This review of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) was written by Moviemaniacs on 06 Mar 2016.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom has generally received positive reviews.
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