SummaryThe fate of mankind rests in the hands of one Lara Croft (Jolie), a twenty-first century heroine inspired by the most popular interactive video character in history. (Paramount Pictures)
SummaryThe fate of mankind rests in the hands of one Lara Croft (Jolie), a twenty-first century heroine inspired by the most popular interactive video character in history. (Paramount Pictures)
I love this movie it hurts me it's rated the worst one.
It's a movie that can empower women to be who they want to be,
It is better than the Hunger games!
The opportunity to give Jolie the room to swagger like the "Charlie's Angels" or "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" ladies is utterly squandered, and a video game franchise that might've resulted in a hoot of a film -- has been blown to dust.
It's interesting and nostalgic but that doesn't mean it's good.
I kinda lost interest around the end.
But is it better than the most recent film, I honestly don't know.
Tomb Raider movies have not been good at any point in history.
But the games are good.
Watch this if you have been deprived of Tomb Raider Content for years on end.
6/10, it's nostalgic.
I thought this was a good movie to bring to life from a video game. Angelina Jolie was the perfect person for this role. It's pretty much like the video game.
Style over substance, anyone?
This could have been a great movie, based on a great game... but it's not! Making Angelina Jolie grunt and sigh like Lara Croft is not enough to make a good movie. It might be enough to make pubertal young boys get excited, but true Tomb Raider fans wont be pleased at all.
The movie does not bring back the memories of the game. The game is all about adventure, exotic exploration... just like the movie Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. But this movie doesn't deliver any tension or feeling of adventure.
It seems the makers of this movie had no fantasy at all and only tried to deliver some nice images and not much of a story. It's like someone said: it doesn't feel like a movie but like a video game playing itself.
The only good about this movie is Angelina Jolie in the shower, at least they didn't totally waste our time for 100 mins.
The problem with Tomb Raider, in my opinion, is that it isn't a movie- it's one long video game that plays itself. Don't get me wrong, the action is entertaining and the dialogue has some wit. But a movie can't rely on video game aesthetics and action to carry the day. It needs characters you can connect to, a story that keeps you involved, and it has to be careful around cliches. A video game is primarily about being immersed in the experience and controlling it, and that's why the Tomb Raider games worked. You had fun controlling an ass-kicking heroine. But the movie doesn't add anything to the video-game formula, and so you're just left with a movie where you wish you were holding a controller, shaping the action yourself. The plot is pure cheese, cliches abound, and Lara gives us nothing that makes us want to root for her besides looking sexy- and that's not enough for a movie to soar.
Production Company
Paramount Pictures,
Mutual Film Company,
BBC Film,
Lawrence Gordon Productions,
Marubeni,
Eidos Interactive,
KFP Produktions GmbH & Co. KG,
Tele München Fernseh Produktionsgesellschaft (TMG),
Toho-Towa,
H2L Media Group