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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliTemple shows a better path for horror films to follow but the screenplay is too threadbare and the characters too poorly developed for it to really work. This is about 2/3 of a solid effort – unfortunately, the other 1/3 was never made.
- 40Los Angeles TimesKimber MyersLos Angeles TimesKimber MyersThe Temple has competent visuals with a few particularly nice shots that establish mood. However, its script is poorly structured and opaque, offering little insight into what is terrorizing the tourists and why.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweThe Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweTemple comes off as more of a half-hearted attempt at exploiting typical J-horror themes than an actual homage to the Japanese genre.
- 25Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezThe film is only in the business of supplying the sort of fear that hinges entirely on the shock of the exotic.
- 0RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsRogerEbert.comSimon AbramsThis is the horror movie equivalent of canned Spam: you could have it so much better if you tried harder (or at all).