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Great fun!!!
This film is brilliant,a combination of very cool action scenes with a gripping storyline.Also,the character of Lara is amazingly transfered to the movie,being tough and good-hearted at the same time,not the usual tough-looking idiot that we're sick of watching on action-films as the leading character.
I really don't get the mixed opinions by the critics,this film is(at least for me)a 100& classic(for now,four years have passed already!).


Film Needs A Vial of Billy Bob's LIfe Blood
Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) is entering a tomb, trying to get to a jewel placed on a pedestal. As she makes her way towards the jewel, a large metal creature unsurfaces and she has to fight it to the death. After she does disable the creature, she retrieves the jewel which is actually a computer chip containing 'Lara's Party Mix', which she plays on the sound system in her mansion. The tomb was actually a training room built in her large English mansion. Soon, Lara discovers a clock hidden under a staircase by her deceased father (Jon Voight, Jolie's real father). The clock started ticking exactly one week before a complete solar eclipse is scheduled to happen. Inside the clock, she finds a dial, which when combined with a mythical triangle (which has, incidentally, been broken in half), gives the holder power over time. The holder can move back and forth within history, changing things. Naturally, a mysterious society, the Illuminata, headquartered in Venice, Italy, wants the device and hires Manfred Powell (Iain Glen) to retrieve it. Manfred hires Alex Marrs (Daniel Craig), Croft's former nemesis and fellow Tomb Raider to help him. Lara can't let the Illuminata gain control of the device.

"Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" is the latest example of why Hollywood should not adapt video games into films. No more successful than "Super Mario Brothers", "Tomb Raider" will probably gross more than $100 million dollars because it caters so brilliantly to the pre-teen boy audience that loves the video game.

The film is filled with action set pieces, which look incredibly like set pieces. Each of the scenes is shot on a set. Each begins with the characters entering a room, tomb, cave, etc. and then, voila, they start fighting something, someone, each other. This creates a very claustrophobic feel which does not translate well to the big screen.

The film was reportedly shot on location in Greenland and a sacred temple in Thailand (?). If this is the case, the filmmakers did a very bad job of taking advantage of the natural scenery.

Jolie certainly fits the physical description of Lara Croft. She has the same voluptuous curves that the video game vixen uses to make grown men addicts of her adventures. I have never played the video game, so I am unsure whether Lara Croft is supposed to look so bored throughout. Jolie smirks and does little else to make the character seem believable. It appears as though the vial of Billy Bob's blood that she reportedly carries around her neck was missing most days when she shot her part. Where would they hide it? Jolie wears a series of skin tight t-shirts and short-shorts to reveal all of her assets.

It was no suprise to see that the filmmaker's managed to include a shower scene. After all, Croft is an archaeologist and needs to be squeaky clean for all of that roughhousing. I only wish they had managed to get a couple of shower scenes into the Indiana Jones films. NOT. As the film is PG, they only show Jolie from the neck up. Boy that water cascading down her hair and lips and neck looks sexy. Strangely, a little later in the film, Alex Marrs gets equal treatment. His shower scene is virtually identical to Croft's. Thank goodness for equal opportunity. I'm sure all of the little 12 year old boys in the audience will love to see a half naked man showering and then walking around his hotel room.

The other big problem with "Tomb Raider" is that we never actually see Croft engaging in any archaeology or tomb raiding, until the climax. Why is she so famous? What special skills does she have? Apparently, she can jump around on bungee cords and kill metal beasts quite well, but what about archaeology draws her into it? Apparently, nothing.

Oh, wait, there is another big problem. After the device is assembled (big surprise, I'm sure), Croft is told that she can't use it for a personal reason and then does any way. Huh? I wasn't even aware that she liked the person she uses it for.

Oh, oh, another problem... Oh, enough. "Tomb Raider" is a sloppy mess of an excuse for filmmaking. Will certainly join "Pearl Harbor" as one of the worst films of the summer if not the year.



Angelina Jolie is Perfect as Lara Croft.
An entertaining adaptation, Based on a Sony Playstation game, which the game is based on a Indiana Jones type adventure fantasy named Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie), an unorthodox heroine. Born into a wealthy family and trained for combat, Lara embraks on a journey that brings her all around the globe, in the hope of finding a precious object is a legendary artifact that has the Power to Change the Past and Future but a Secert Society (Lead by Iain Glen) wants to used it as World Domination, which the object is called "The Triangle of Light".

Directed by Simon West (Con Air, The General`s Daughter) made an entertaining Action/Fantasy/Adventure that gets better, everytime you watch it. Despite the film being Bombastic, the flick is Surprisngly Enjoyable and Slick. Jolie is Great in the Lead. Jolie`s Real-Life father Oscar-Winner:Jon Voight plays her dad in flash-backs as Lord Richard Croft. The film`s Production Designs are the Highlights of the film. DVD has an sharp anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) transfer & an strong-Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. DVD has Commentary Track by Director:West, 4 Deleted Scenes, Behind the Scenes featurettes, Features for DVD-ROM and more. The Action Sequences are Eye-Popping Entertainment. Followed by a Sequel. Super 35. Grade:A-.

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