Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
2001 Directed by Simon West
Synopsis
Born into Wealth. Groomed by the Elite. Trained for Combat.
English aristocrat Lara Croft is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and in the middle of a battle with a secret society. The shapely archaeologist moonlights as a tomb raider to recover lost antiquities and meets her match in the evil Powell, who's in search of a powerful relic.
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How did they get this so astronomically wrong? Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was, frankly, such an easy idea to make: a female, British Indiana Jones slinking her way around ancient mythology with twin guns, plummy quips and exotic locations - the template is there in so many films already, surely this easily should be exciting, funny, sexy and cool all in one package? Well... no. Simon West fudges it almost completely, instead supplying wooden dialogue in a flat script, wasting genuine talent in the cast and directing with all the visual tricks yet none of the iconic depth.
The big bone of contention for many is Angelina Jolie as the titular heroine. Personally, much as the definitive Lara Croft on…
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Lara Croft fights a giant robot about a minute in. If that sounds okay with you, please throw yourself into an acid pit.
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I don't understand why people don't make good films based on video games, they have the source material that people like, al l they have to do is transfer it on a different medium.
The Tomb Raider films are fun, its like a really dumb down, less awesome Indiana Jones. -
Pure escapist fun in a bad way. Angie was the perfect Lara Croft wet dream.
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This is a pretty dreadful movie that is almost salvaged by the performance of Angelina Jolie. She was perfect for this role and is a very good Lara Croft. Besides that, it's a paper thin, forgettable action film with a ridiculous plot and terrible music and special effects pumping throughout. If you want to marvel at a young Angelina flipping around and shooting everything while looking incredible, this one is worth a shot, if not...skip it!
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Honestly this movie moves way too slowly for an action movie based on an action-adventure video game series. Plus Lara doesn't fight even one fucking dinosaur. What's even the point?
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Tomb Raider's CG has not held up well. It's story is generic and uninteresting. The characters are all boring stereotypes. The action is mostly dull and fake-looking. The music and visual style are unfortunate holdovers from the 90's. In short...it kind of sucks.
The one thing they did right in this film was casting Angelina Jolie. Aside from having to put on a fake British accent, she was meant to play this part just as much as Patrick Stewart was destined to be Professor X in the X-Men films. At the time she was super hot, resembled the character, and wasn't afraid to show some side-boob.
Major missteps:
- Simon (the robot) didn't belong in this movie at all and,…
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Nem mondanám, hogy magasak voltak az elvárásaim (mégiscsak egy játékátiratról van szó), de ilyen szintű forgatókönyvet szerintm én is összedobnék két hétvége alatt.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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The sequel is actually better than this convoluted, tiresome mess.
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2.5/10
This movie was a waste of time, a waste of money and a waste of Angelina Jolie's talent. Not only it was boring as hell but in every way it was the result of truly poor filmmaking. Besides its laughable action sequences, I'm proud to say that after several years since I watched it, I have forgotten nearly all of it. However, in spite of everything I should say that I honestly think that it could have been even worse.
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Sadly, this is still the best live action adaptation of a video-game out there. Though its admittedly a guilty pleasure of mine.
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