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Directed By
Steven Spielberg
Written By:
Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz
Cast:
Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Roshan Seth, Roy Chiao, David Yip, Ric Young, Philip Tan, Dan Aykroyd, Michael Yama, Ahmed El Shenawi, Amrish Puri, Philip Stone Blumburtt, Chua Kah Joo, Dr. Akio Mitamura, Rex Ngui
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
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Movie Review by Chris
August 12th, 2008
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A year before the events of "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Jones is in China trying to discuss on a trading of an artifact from Chinese gangsters. However, the gangsters also tried to ambush Jones, he escapes. However, His plane crashes over the Hymalayas and is now stranded in the wastelands of India. Jones, along with a lounge singer Named Willhelma, and a kid called "Short Round", came to a village that is under a crisis, the children are missing as well as the sacred stones. Jones, Willhelma, and Short Round investigate on the whereabouts of the children and the stones. They stumbled on a temple, where a vicious voodoo doctor kills and tortures his victims by tearing their hearts out. Jones has to defeat the doctor and save the children and recover the sacred stones.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is the second movie in the action/adventure series from Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. As Indiana Jones is one of my favorite film franchises of all time, even spanning another sequel close to 20 years after The Last Crusade, Temple of Doom is the most action packed of all the movies. As it takes place a year before Raiders, it seems to be a bigger and more action packed spectacle then what Raiders was. It features very large and greatly detailed sets, amazing visual effects for the time and excellently choreographed fight scenes and awesome stunts throughout. It actually probably is the creepiest and disturbing of all the movies but its still an amazing film to watch.
Harrison Ford has moved on to the second movie as the ever so awesome Indiana Jones. In the first film, Raiders, he was more serious and had some funny things to say, but it seemed as if some of his lines just werent that funny. In Temple of Doom, he has a lot of funny lines and everything he had did and he actually says some very memorable lines throughout. Indy now meets up with his lover Willie, a girl he ends up meeting in Shanghai and now that he takes her on this adventure, and though she gets mad at him and at times absoulutely hates him, you can see that they have something together when they converse on screen. She is a very annoying character though, shes always screaming and complaining and theres a point where you just want her to shut up. His new companion is Short Round, a little kid who Indy ended up meeting after he tried to pick pocket him, is now his little buddy. He cares for Indy and it seems as if they really like eachother, which they do.
The action of all the Indiana Jones movies kind of remind you of the live action shows when you go to an amusement park, with a lot of explosions and crazy stunts, and this actually makes the movie a little bit better. A lot of the action scenes are very creative and though they dont have much thought behind them, theyre excellently choreograped and the stunts are amazing to watch. There is a lot of hanging and jumping, along with plenty of flips and falls, and the end scene on the bridge contains many visual effects of just people falling. We also get a rollercoaster type scene which really gets your adrenaline going and though a lot of it is computer generated, it all looks really great. The film actually won an Oscar for effects, but when you watch it now its like blah, but you also have to appreciate the fact that this is a film from 1984 and they did what they did and they did it right.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is creepy and fun, along with being action packed. A fun ride. 4 and a half stars of 5.
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