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Better than the original????? NOT!
I could swallow a review calling this movie the best action film since DIE HARD or SPEED (ah, Jan De Bonts fluke---a great film) before I can swallow another calling it better than the original. REGARDLESS of what you think either film, I don't see how this can be considered better than the first.

Okay, the filmmakers DID acknowledge that the first film had little in the way of character developement or drama. Thats better than this film, which has human drama, BAD human drama. BAD! The plot involving Lara and the-guy-whose-name-I-dont-care-to-remember was suffocating. Former lovers with sexual undercurrents throughout their adventures??? YAWN? How about the whole let-the-criminal-out-of-prison-to-hunt-the-bad-guy thing? Yeah..... AGAIN!

Speaking of bad guys, Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life has a pathetic one. It takes serious acting talent to pull off the a prim and proper British bad guy (in other words, a complete pansy), something that this man doesn't have. At least movies like UNDERWORLD, XXX, and BAD BOYS II had the decency to give us bad guys with long, greasy hair and unshaven mugs to give them some credibility.

Not even a shark can save this film. Usually, when in doubt and the setting involves the ocean, you can throw in a shark attack to spice things up, like in the Bond films. This time we have a pathetic CG tiger shark that easily be punched in the face to be stopped. I realize that the shark's nose is a sensitive area, but what Lara does is impossible in the physical universe.

Not exciting, not stylish, DEFINATELY not compelling, and not funny, this film is far from the first, but in the opposite direction that most think. Simon West might not know diddly about human drama, but at least he acknowleged this and instead focused on what he was good at: action and style. Better than this pretentious mess of cliches and banality.

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