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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

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lahiru's avatar
lahiru
I would love this movie if I watch it 10 years earlier
EssexMutant's avatar
EssexMutant
Some decent action buried within a mostly incomprehensible script.
Siskoid's avatar
Siskoid
I've never played the game, so I guess my question is whether Lara Croft actually fights robots in it. If not, the first few minutes of her first movie are even more nonsensical. Angelina Jolie is striking in the role despite being strapped with an English accent and a weirdly-shaped bra. In fact, one of the worst things about this is how stupidly sexualized she is - like Jolie needs it! Pre-Bond Daniel Craig provides a bit of tat for tit, but that's not any better. The attempts at humor are also lame (as is the dialog), and physics don't always seem to apply to these characters. However, I can excuse the latter because the action scenes evoke Hong Kong cinema's gun fu, though things eventually devolve into fights with CG monsters and set pieces no doubt inspired by the video game. It's the kind of stuff I can't stand in fantasy films of this era. As a more fantastical/superheroic take on Indiana Jones, it's fine. Artifacts must be collected before the Illuminati can use them to reverse time and change history, an adventure that makes use of locations that haven't been overdone, like Cambodia and Siberia. It's just a bit too exploitative is all.