Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Like the video game series it's based on, Tomb Raider is best enjoyed for its physical strategies, since even casual scrutiny of story details will induce a headache. It's more concerned with puzzles than plot, populated with characters that don't have personalities so much as attitudes. It's silly and somber at the same time, but as a franchise vehicle for Angelina Jolie in the title role of relic hunter Lara Croft, this is packaged entertainment at its most agreeable, ambitious in scope and scale, and filled with the kind of globetrotting adventure that could make Jolie the best thing that's happened to action movies since Indiana Jones. Could being the operative word here, because Tomb Raider can't match any of Steven Spielberg's celebrated joyrides, but the ingredients are there for an exquisitely cinematic meal. Perhaps to distance himself from Lara Croft's video game origins, director Simon West takes things a bit too seriously; Tomb Raider handles its plot (involving a planetary alignment, the nefarious Illuminati, and coveted relics that hold the key to controlling the flow of time) with all the gravity of a championship chess match... minus the tension. If the movie had lightened up and been truly suspenseful (instead of being suffused with been-there, done-that familiarity), it would have been an instant popcorn classic. As it is, however, this is an elegantly mounted adventure featuring exotic locations (in Cambodia and Iceland) and an exotic star born for her role. Even without her padded bra, Jolie would be the living embodiment of Lara Croft, and that's enough to bode well for inevitable sequels. --Jeff Shannon

Director(s): Simon West
Production: Paramount Pictures
  4 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
33
Rotten Tomatoes:
20%
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Year:
2001
100
$129,512,407
Website
9,743 Views

Lara Croft:
[knocks on door] Bryce!

Bryce:
Hello, fellas. How's business?

Lara Croft:
Bryce!

Bryce:
Okay, okay, I'm comin, I'm comin'. [opens the door to see Lara]

Lara Croft:
We have 83 rooms. Can't you live in the house?

Bryce:
Well, I'm a free spirit, me.

Lara Croft:
Right.

Bryce:
[sniffs] What's that smell?

Lara Croft:
5:00 A.M. Let's go.

Bryce:
This had better be good. [next scene] [tired yawn] It's a clock.

Lara Croft:
I found it last night. It was ticking.

Bryce:
Must be one of those ticking clocks, eh?

Lara Croft:
It was hidden in a secret room.

Bryce:
Ooh!

Lara Croft:
Bryce, don't start.

Bryce:
Well, Lara, it's a clock. It ticks, it tells the time. It's wrong.

Lara Croft:
It started ticking... last night, during the first stage of the alignment.

Bryce:
Well, gonna need some coffee. [next scene] Okay, in we go. It looks pretty ordinary to me.

Lara Croft:
Keep looking.

Hilary:
Your coffee. Decaf double latte with non-fat milk.

[Lara rolls her eyes]

Bryce:
Oh, champion. Steaming sump oil.

Lara Croft:
[sees something] Wait, what did you do?

Bryce:
I don't know. What did I do?

Lara Croft:
Where is that?

Bryce:
Don't know. I just took my hand off the fibre optics.

Hilary:
What is that?

Bryce:
Ugh! Bugger!

Lara Croft:
Bugger.

Bryce:
Screw thirteen to quadrant four. Screw fourteen to quadrant three.

Hilary:
Oh, please.

Bryce:
It's my map, so I know where they all came from.

Lara Croft:
It's camouflage. [smashes clock revealing what was hidden]

Bryce:
Okay. "Hidden within." What is that?

Lara Croft:
The All-Seeing Eye.


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