Synopsis
Her legend begins
Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.
Tomb Raider
2018 Directed by Roar Uthaug
Cast
Alicia Vikander Walton Goggins Dominic West Daniel Wu Kristin Scott Thomas Hannah John-Kamen Derek Jacobi Antonio Aakeel Michael Obiora Keenan Arrison Milton Schorr Josef Altin Billy Postlethwaite Emily Carey Alexandre Willaume-Jantzen Duncan Airlie James Roger Jean Nsengiyumva Sarah Sayuri Hare Maisy De Freitas Shekhar Varma Rekha John-Cheriyan Jaime Winstone Nick Frost
Director
Producers
Writers
Editors
Cinematography
Production Design
Gary Freeman Anthony Caron-Delion Claire Fleming Tamara Marini Tom Still Alessandro Troso Pravika Singh Cecelia van Straaten Mark Walker
Visual Effects
Johnathan R. Banta Chelsea L. Miller Scott Shapiro Christal Wolgamott Mare McIntosh Sarah Vinson Marcus Goodwin Lisa Spence Johanna Lange Allan Magled Kelly McCarthy Hubert Maston Radley Teruel Nick Crew Roland Langschwert Robert Nederhorst
Composer
Sound
Costumes
Make-Up
Studios
Countries
Language
Popular reviews
More-
-
-
-
i guess this is an iteration of tomb raider that takes itself more seriously — but in a way, it also doesn’t and that’s what i kinda love about it. there are cheesy one-liners, lara kicks a guy in the balls, there’s a nick frost cameo, for god’s sake. because of that, it reminded me of the silly adventure movies i adored as a kid like the mummy and national treasure. it’s nice that little girls have another action hero to look up to.
-
I don’t care how many times it’s been said or how many times you’ve had to hear it and I don’t care about the pathetic male “critics” who think lara’s breast size or their personal level of attraction to alicia vikander affects quite literally anything about this movie’s quality I LOVE BADASS WOMEN CHARACTERS and I feel SO blessed to be seeing them become more and more celebrated as I’m growing older and we can reboot everything and anything for all I care if it means we get more sick films like this that just make you feel COOL and on edge and scared and sad and happy and cheerful and fearful and most of all POWERFUL!! Woohooooo!!!!!!!
-
This is perfectly serviceable. In fact if someone told you it came out in the late 90's you might buy it. And it has as much running and jumping as any game except you're not pressing X all the time, which believe it or not actually makes a difference. Turning this into LARA CROFT BEGINS however was a bonehead move. Am I really supposed to care how she got the pick axe or the twin pistols? I mean I guess that's slightly more interesting than how this turns her from a fortune and glory treasure hunter into a generic tough movie babe with generic tough movie babe daddy issues but whatever.
Recent reviews
More-
It’s straightforward and zippy and sunny and a lot of fun. It aims straight down the middle and succeeds as a big well-made adventure.
-
-
-
-
This definitely claims for some more rewritings. The first twenty minutes is almost disastrous, with clumsy character introduction and a plot being explained in voice-over TWICE. The writing is so lazy it completely ignores any depth of character relationships (that guy must be the most underwritten sidekick of the past years) or the minimum effort to build decent set-ups and payoffs. Damn, even the new games had a much more intesting plot and compelling characters.
Halfway through it becomes almost a remake of Indiana Jones and the Last Cruzade (that color puzzle made me laugh of embarrassment), driven by boring, uninspired action sequences and endless expositions and flashbacks.
Kudos must be given, however, to Alice Vikander, whom I never really… -
Another action movie based on the buxom video game character, TOMB RAIDER replaces Angelina Jolie with the winsome Alicia Vikander (EX MACHINA), who is capable in the running, jumping, shooting, and sometimes acting departments. Where she falls short are scenes in which she fights hand to hand, as Vikander just isn’t substantial enough physically to convincingly beat up anyone. Screenplay by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons is weak and makes Vikander’s Lara Croft kinda dumb and reckless as a substitute for interesting characterization. Uninspired plotting sends Lara to Hong Kong and Japan to find her long-lost daddy Richard (THE WIRE’s Dominic West as Oliver Reed) after a fairly dire opening establishing her as a bicycle messenger. Yep, it’s an unnecessary…
-
Great lead performance in an otherwise okay film. Action is solid, it hits all it’s marks - but this isn’t anything you haven’t seen before.
Junkie XL’s score tho >>> -
I liked it. It was well shot, kept my attention. Nothing groundbreaking but fun.
-
Popular Lists
More
my all time favorite films
jose 260 films
sucks how letterboxd will only let you choose four favorite movies so I decided to create a list of my…
Girls on Film
Tara 2,180 films
Movies about/starring women and girls of all ages. List is mainly female protagonists, but also includes some films where a…
