Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom [M]

After a less than friendly business venture, Indiana Jones finds himself stranded in India with his young sidekick Short Round and sheltered songstress Willie Scott. When they get brought to a poverty-stricken Indian village, they are told that the village’s sacred stone that protects them was stolen by worshippers of a dark faith, along with all the children. And so Indiana Jones sets off on another adventure, one that’s going to be unlike anything he’s ever experienced before. 

It must be some sort of rule with trilogies, to have the second movie completely jam-packed with rollicking adventure and action and no breathing space in between. It’s the same with Pirates of the Caribbean and Back to the Future, both the second movies in those trilogies are crammed full of action, so much that it almost goes overboard. That was pretty much the case with this movie. Still being a great cinema experience, there is a lot of action, gruesome things, and creepy crawlies packed into this movie, making it the most rollicking and fast-paced Indiana Jones film ever. 

After a business deal goes slightly awry, Indiana Jones suddenly finds himself stranded in India with this young sidekick Short Round and a sheltered songstress Willie Scott. When they are taken to a poverty-stricken village, they are told that the village’s sacred stone that protects them was stolen along with their children by worshippers of a dark faith. So Indiana sets off on another adventure to find and return the stone and the children to their home, but this adventure is going to harbour surprises unlike anything he’s ever gone up against before. 

I do feel that, after Raiders of the Lost Ark, this movie went a little bit overboard with the action and the gruesome scenes. We saw faces melting and snakes in the first movie, here we see hearts being ripped out of bodies, macabre rituals, and an abundance of insects. 

Harrison Ford is back as the charming and sometimes arrogant professor who, in this adventure, speaks Indian and emits a lot of screams of pain. 

Kate Capshaw plays Willie and she was great for her what her character was. Being a sheltered and spoilt songbird, she just thinks the world revolves around her and there is no way to like her in this film, you just want to smack her. She played the part very well. 

Ke Huy Quan stars as Short Round and he was brilliant. One of the greatest child actors that I’ve seen in an action movie, he provided the film with suspense, comedy, and love. He’s a very talented little actor. 

Starring Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth and Phillip Stone, Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom is a great adventure filled with action, romance, suspense, gore, macabre rituals, feats of death, and everything else in between. Immensely fast-paced and not as fun and engaging as the first one, it still leaves an impression and it worth having in any film buff’s collection.