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Give me a break!
It was one of the most anticipated film this summer as millions of Tomb Raider fans awaits the screen adaptation of their favourite game. Heavy promotion and cool website serve as the entree for this movie. However, the main course just fails miserably in contrast. The director, Simon West, was more interested in getting Angelina Jolie to pose in front of the camera than making her act.

The movie opened with Jolie fighting with a robot in a typical tomb raider setting only to reveal "the gem" she was after was a CD of her favourite music and the robot was her "simulated" training companion. The action was well choreographed but the humour was unbearably contrived. Thus set the pace for the rest of the film which is filled with clique and a lot of pouty lips from Miss Jolie.

The movie sees Lara Croft out fulfilling her late father's unfinished mission, the search and destroy of the secret triangle that allows its possessor's the power of controlling time. However, instead of getting on with the action and less talk, the movie took a twist and became a travelogue as we travel to Cambodia and the ice arctic (where Jolie was dressed in a sleeveless top and open buttoned leather coat - one wonders what is protecting her from the freezing cold), in search of the missing pieces that will form the secret triangle.

It was even more bizarre as the script serves up several mushy scene between Croft and her nemesis Powell and her arch rival Alex West as Croft debates giving up her half of the secret triangle for the chance to go on the search of the second half with the Illuminati.

This was a film with forgettable character, terrible script and direction. Surely Miss Jolie can do better than putting her career at stake by associating herself with this level of production. Fans of Lara Croft will probably be much more contented with the game play and finding solace in the brilliantly designed Tomb Raider website.

Empty Tomb
There is really only one reason to watch this movie. Only one reason to tolerate it. That reason : Angelina Jolie. There is no question that this girl is a great actress. While this film may not show you her true talents, she does do the best of what she had been given. She is definitley her hottest in this film. She might be a tad quirky in real life, but, that's endearing. This movie is pretty mediocre. I'm not a Lara Croft fan. In fact, I don't really know anything about it. I really wasn't expecting much. I didn't get much either. The silly plot about time or something, I really can't remember, was pretty transparent. I mean, I just said I can't even remember it!. The action scenes are pretty adequate. The raid on the mansion is especially fun and thrilling. It's too bad the rest of the film couldn't hold on to that thrillness. Is thrillness even a word?. Oh well. Jon Voight is on hand in a cameo as Lara's father. Voight, a brilliant actor, is pretty much not there in his performance of a barely there character. If mindless, senseless action films is your thing, you'll probaby like this. Others will probably just fall asleep. Five stars for Jolie tho. Not worth raiding.

Huge disappointment
Lackluster adaptation of the hugely popular video game that has Angelina Jolie filling in more than ably for the title character. Swaggering around in great clothing and accesorized by the coolest gadgets imaginable, Jolie's Lara Croft is an action woman extraordinaire, seizing her audience by storm with her powerful physical and emotional presence, and presenting the most popular female action hero since Sigourney Weaver first started battling those evil aliens. The story, however, isn't up to her standards, wasting the gorgeous around the world locales and strong supporting cast in favour of overly-edited action scenes and deceptive but ultimately useless character development (all the scenes about Croft dealing with her father's untimely death never really tell us anything about her or her relationship with him). The plot, such as it is, concerns our heroine racing against time to save the world from being taken over by a Venice-based power cult called the Illuminati who require an ancient talisman to be used in a ritual during a powerful solar eclipse. Between these guys and Hannibal Lecter running a museum in Venice, the place has certainly fallen off my personal list of future vacation spots. Though it features many good visual effects and exciting battles in ancient temples and all the trappings you hope for in a film of this sort, there's always the feeling that something's missing. Once you reach the finale and find out it's topped off by the most anti-climactic ending of the year, you have finished watching an okay but unremarkable movie starring a very impressive but underused leading lady. And yes, her breasts are everywhere all the time. Looking forward to a better sequel.

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