![]() Plot: Lara Croft races against time to locate the legendary Pandora’s box before it falls in the hands of the evil Jonathan Reiss, who plans to use the box to make weapons of mass destruction. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) The movie has its flaws but if you’re looking for a 90-minute escape from reality you could do a lot worse. Overall, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider has Angelina at her best with some well put together action scenes, a great cast and a fantastic music score. Having Jolie’s real-life father Jon Voight in this movie was a nice touch and added some heart to a movie that otherwise would leave you feeling rather cold. Some of the dialogue is a little lame and the script could be better but as this is a videogame adaptation it’s still huge fun and one of the better ones. The film is just over 90 minutes long so it moves at a brisk pace and director Simon West is no stranger to action movies so it all still looks great. ![]() My favourite aspect of Tomb Raider is the music score composed by Graeme Revell which is filled with New Age chants and sounds more like an Enigma album with a few action cues added in. I was never a big fan of the scene where the statues come alive as I prefer to keep it grounded but the effects for the most part still hold up well and these sorts of things happened in the games too. The camera work is smooth, and we can see everything clearly making for a hugely entertaining set-piece. There are some spectacular action scenes but the standout for me has to be the assault on Croft Mansion while Lara is using the bungee cord swing to run around the room taking out her various assailants. She gets the accent spot on and looks to be doing a lot of her own stunts (of which there are many). What’s funny is that I never really hated Powell Glen plays him as a smug, slimy scoundrel and yet I still took to him mostly due to Glen’s sheer on-screen charisma.ĭaniel Craig is playing an American and does a decent enough accent although I think he has certainly grown as an actor over the years.Īngelina just looks like she is having a blast as Lara literally laughing when faced with danger and she really was great in this role. In this first movie not only do we get Angelina at her absolute sexiest but we also see a young Daniel Craig as her roguish “friend” Alex West as well as Ian Glen (Game of Thrones) as the villain Powell. A secret society wants to lay its hands on the relic for its own immoral purposes. Plot: Lara Croft, an adventurer, embarks on a journey to find an artefact that possesses the ability to control time. So today I wanted to do a little retrospective on both movies. Angelina Jolie’s Tomb Raider films were generally met with middling reviews when they first came out I remember not being overly enamored with them myself at the time but after watching them recently I forgot just how entertaining they were.
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