Decades before Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the Indiana Jones franchise had a redheaded step-child in its midst.
Although Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom boasts stand-out visuals executed with the sublime finesse only attainable by Steven Spielberg, it’s also a mess.
And a persistent mess at that.
The director agrees: as early as 1989, five years after Temple of Doom hit theaters, Spielberg called the feature “too dark, too subterranean, and much too horrific.
I thought it out-poltered Poltergeist.
There’s not an ounce of my personal feeling in Temple of Doom.”…
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