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Mildly Enjoying Action Film.
Of the all the shooting, flashbacks, time relativity and illuminati garbage uttered through out this film only the very talented Angelina Jolie managed to save this film from being a complete train wreck.

Angelina Jolie stars as the infamous video game herione 'Lara Croft', a British noble with a taste for history and action as well as raiding Tombs that should other wise be left alone. As her father was an Archaeologist, Lord Richard Henshingly Croft (played ironically by Jolie's real life father Jon Voight, at a rather dull and unmemorable performance that should have been enhanced to better give a thorough understanding of the 'Lara Croft' character.) Crofts father mysteriously dissapeared on the field ages ago to a much bereived Lara who to this day remains clueless as to where or what happened to her father.

Introducing several 'side-kicks' to Lara who are remarkably well designed and memoriable despite their outward and 'cliched' appearances the movie falls into a silly plot. Something about a mysterious 'Triangle' with an an amzing power originating from a famous (fictional) civilization that has it's ties in it's modern day descendents of the Conspiracy theorists much beloved classic theory on the 'Illuminati' an all powerful underground organization that illegitedly runs the entire world. The 'Illuminati' are searching for this all amazing triangle with and have been for centuries and have a rather narrow window of opportunity to find it once every 5,000 years. Hence the movies hurried pace which is played astonishingly well. Throw in all of this with Lara's strange ties to the Illuminati through her father, who's dissapearance some how makes a connection in all of this.

As the movie drags on more references to this 'civilization' are made in as well as the 'Time realtivity', incredibly over simplified for impatient audiences. Tomb Raider is an entertaining movie to say the least, though poorly developed and weak characters domniate the movie the side characters provide much needed comic relief to a movie that would have worn it's rating down more if it had taken itself far to seriously.

Hard core game fans of the games should stay away from this movie however as much of the original game is lost in the tradtional Simon West 'game to screen' adapations changes much of the original plot to 'humanize' the very icey and solitary original Game Lara Croft.

One can enjoy this movie as a rental and perhaps to own if the love of action is hard enough. Tomb Raider is entertaining but it is no Indian Jones for certain.

Good DVD extras. Not-so-good movie.
What can you say about 'Lara Croft - Tomb Raider?' It's a video game posing as a movie, and it shows. The plot is cheesy and far-fetched, while the many action sequences are so fast-fast-fast that they are nearly impossible to follow. The movie finds Lara Croft, the buxom tomb raider of video game fame, caught in the middle of a cosmic plot with nothing short of the future of the world hanging in the balance. Croft, played by the gorgeous Angelina Jolie, travels to Cambodia, Russia and other places, while disposing of lots of assorted bad guys... Still, Jolie sparkles as the movie's heroine in multiple tight-fitting outfits. (It's not her fault that the script is full of holes...) Aside from the movie, the extras on this DVD are pretty good. The disc includes deleted scenes, several behind-the-scenes featurettes, a U2 music video and other neat stuff. The quality of the movie itself, particularly on a high-end home theater, is top-notch. Here's a suggestion for next time: How about including a full version of the actual 'Tomb Raider' video game?

Not much resemblance to the video game character
Tomb Raider the movie failed to be hardly anything like Tomb Raider the video game. Lara Croft in the video game is dressed in brown and green clothes, Lara Croft in the movie is dressed in all black.

Also, in the video game, she's just about always in tombs. In the movie, she hardly ever was in any tombs, and that movement of manuvers she did at the beggining of the movie in the tomb to make it seem as if it's the video game come to life expect for her black clothes, that was quickly over after only a few minutes and it was only in her backyard in her mansion where she practices.

She is a very sexy woman, though. (...)

Angelina Jolie's sexieness was the only good thing about Tomb Raider the movie, and again, if they were trying to make it as resembling to the video game as possible, then like that older movie Super Mario Bros., they didn't do so good.

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