Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom remains an ingenious adventure spectacle that showcases one of Hollywood's finest filmmaking teams in vintage form." />
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

  • 85% of critics liked it
    (60 reviews)

  • 80% of users liked it
    (640,197 ratings)

The second of the George Lucas/Steven Spielberg Indiana Jones epics is set a year or so before the events in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1984). After a brief brouhaha involving a precious vial and a wild ride down a raging Himalyan river, Indy (Harrison Ford) gets down to the problem at hand:… More

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PG, 1 hr. 58 min.
Directed By
Steven Spielberg
Written By
Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz
Genres
Action & Adventure
In Theaters
May 1, 1984 Wide
On DVD
Oct 21, 2003
Paramount Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

    Again you will savor the Indiana Jones schizophrenia: by day a bow-tied, bespectacled archaeologist; by night a resourceful swaggerer, whom Ford brings to life as a modern blend of Bogie and the Duke, with just a glint of misfit psychopathy in his eyes.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    It's not the darker turn that makes The Temple of Doom uncomfortable at times; it's its mean-spiritedness.

  • Todd McCarthy, Variety

    Pic comes on like a sledgehammer, and there's even a taste of vulgarity and senseless excess not apparent in Raiders.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    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.

  • Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

    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.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Tim S


    I've gone round and round in my mind about whether the sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark was good, if not better than the original. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is certainly a very well-crafted movie, but it doesn't have as much repeatability as the other films in… More

  • Eric A


    A little off the pace from the first, but still awesome. I liked the cinematography just as much, maybe more, compared to the first. What I didn't like was the amount of time spent on Willie. It seemed a bit excessive, and her screams/voice got annoying REAL fast.

  • Sanjaya &


    After a huge success from the first movie, no doubt there will be a sequel for this movie and as a sequel, for me The Temple of Doom was much better than Raiders of the Lost Ark.. Probably Steven put more action scenes in this movie that makes my adrenaline rush faster than in the… More

  • Chris W


    This film definitely has it's moments, but this is, for me, maybe the least of the Indy films. Yeah, that's right, I liked "Crystal Skull" a tad more than this one, and it's considered part of the "classic" trilogy. I think my main issues with this… More

  • Alexander D


    Darker, worse than the original.

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