Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)'s comments

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lahiru

I would love this movie if I watch it 10 years earlier

9 years 2 months ago

EssexMutant

Some decent action buried within a mostly incomprehensible script.

9 years 10 months ago

It's really just a video game popcorn movie but even judged by those standards it's still so mediocre. There's some decent stuntwork buried in there but it's shot in such a way that it struggles to take full advantage of it. Plot is rather sluggish and only ever ventures into mildly interesting territory. A main highlight that could have been so much more is Iain Glen as an Illuminati member and almost a male version of Lara in some ways. The fact that both Lara as the protagonist and the villain are both tomb raiders and work outside the law was ripe territory for exploitation and conflict between them, but alas. The whole vehicle comes off as a movie struggling to understand its source material and as a result went the generic route.

11 months 2 weeks ago

Siskoid

I've never played the game, so I guess my question is whether Lara Croft actually fights robots in it. If not, the first few minutes of her first movie are even more nonsensical. Angelina Jolie is striking in the role despite being strapped with an English accent and a weirdly-shaped bra. In fact, one of the worst things about this is how stupidly sexualized she is - like Jolie needs it! Pre-Bond Daniel Craig provides a bit of tat for tit, but that's not any better. The attempts at humor are also lame (as is the dialog), and physics don't always seem to apply to these characters. However, I can excuse the latter because the action scenes evoke Hong Kong cinema's gun fu, though things eventually devolve into fights with CG monsters and set pieces no doubt inspired by the video game. It's the kind of stuff I can't stand in fantasy films of this era. As a more fantastical/superheroic take on Indiana Jones, it's fine. Artifacts must be collected before the Illuminati can use them to reverse time and change history, an adventure that makes use of locations that haven't been overdone, like Cambodia and Siberia. It's just a bit too exploitative is all.

2 years ago