Yes I’ll be the first to admit, the silliness (Illuminati’s clock for instance), and the plot holes, the terrible pacing and even more terrible British accent from Jolie was undeniable, but you’d be a full if you ignore the then fantastic action scenes, and the general energy (and at times fun) the movie had. Here is a movie so monumentally silly, yet so wondrous to look at, that only a churl could find fault.” “‘Lara Croft Tomb Raider’ elevates goofiness to an art form. Roger Eber gave it 3 star rating and in the film review he said: A fairly looked down piece of film-making in the early 2000’s but the movie managed to earn more than 200 million dollars globally, despite from the poor critical reception. The summer of 2001 already brought action movies from several sub-genres such as Swordfish, The Fast and the Furious, Rush Hour 2, but Tomb Raider was in the action adventure sub-category. A decent video game summer blockbuster movie. Me… Because I actually liked it… and since I saw it again just a few days ago, I can say that it was just that. Sure… far form a master piece Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was the summer blockbuster movie, the film fans needed. Save the- video game to film adaptation- bad rep and prove once and for all that there can BE a decent video game movie.īut the thing is… There was a decent video game movie back in 2001, and I’m here to defend it. 17 years after Angelina Jolie became Lara, the Swedish actress will attempt (teamed with director Roar Uthaug) to do the imaginable. I’m of course talking about Alicia Vikander. Another actress has embodied the role of the famed video game character Lara Croft, and a second Oscar winner of that. Warner Bros releases it Friday.ĭo you plan to see Tomb Raider? Let us know what you think.The first teaser for 2018’s reboot of Tomb Raider is officially out. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons wrote the script. Gamers ought to love it, and you can thank Vikander for keeping it all together and making it work as well as it does. The thrill quotient is high for this sort of thing, and it is all a silly but entertaining couple of hours in the best old fashioned sense of the word. She’s also got the chops to take on Vogel mano a mano in more exciting action sequences set in the actual tomb referenced in the film’s title. However, there are some primo action scenes including a corker of a wild river ride Lara is tossed into as she tries to hang on for dear life before going over the falls. This is the point the film falls into the familiar traps of this kind of over-the-top adventure, and I have to confess the setup was more satisfying than the payoff. Once on the island though she runs into a band of mercenaries led by evil Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins), who is also determined to find the key to unlock that queen’s tomb and revel in all the power he thinks he will soon possess because of it. In tow with Lu Ren (Daniel Wu), the loopy and drunken son of the charter boat owner who accompanied dad on his journey, they set out to follow a map re-tracing that treacherous journey. Lara ditches the company and sets out on a high seas adventure to find the obscure island off Japan where she has learned her father was last headed.
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