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lara croft tomb raider | Year: 2001 Classification: Action/Adventure Directed: - Simon West Actors/Actresses: - Iain Glen - Jon Voight - Angelina Jolie Fun! If you feel like turning off your brain for 2 hours, this movie, which is like a cross between Indiana Jones and Xena, provides an extremely fun diversion. The plot is quite thin and only serves to set up a reason for the lead character, rich treasure hunter Lara Croft, to search various sites for various objects against ruthless competition (a secret international cabal called the Illuminati). It is only necessary to change about 10 minutes worth of the movie in order to completely alter the setup and still leave the rest of the movie intact (Personally, I would have like to have learned more about this movie's version of the Illuminati -- see Robert Anton Wilson's novels for more). But this is just an action movie, so who cares! The action scenes are fantastic and are some of the best I've seen. Other pros is the superb casting of the beautiful Angelina Jolie, the use of absolutely gorgeous and exotic locales, a rocking soundtrack, and some good moments of humour, not to mention its rare use of a very strong female character. The almost nonexistent plot keeps me from giving this a 5. Hard to Identify... Lara Croft--Tomb Raider was one of the most anticipated films of the year. The very idea of taking a video-game and crafting it into a movie took us all by surprise, and once it was announced that Angelina Jolie was casted as the leading lady, that was it: we had to see it. The film, of course, has your stereotypical plot of an action hero (this time female) going on a quest to save civilization. In this case, Croft must stop villains from getting the pieces of a triangle which once led to the destruction of a society and could be used to control the earth and lead to its destruction, if put in the wrong hands. Naturally, lots of stunts, fight-scenes, and narrow escapes ensue before Lara Croft ultimately prevails. There is also a link to Lara's own past, in that she is taking on a mission which her father was unable to fulfill. As his successor, she is determined more than ever to rescue civilization. I found this movie hard to interpret in the sense that it was very unemotional. I associated Jolie with such roles as 'Lisa' from 'Girl, Interrupted' and did not know what to make of her as a cool and collected action queen. Of course, she was fun to watch, but she did not seem to have a lot of lines, and the lines she did have, were often giving instructions or in the middle of fight-scenes. The lack of feeling was disconcerting for me. I understand that it was important to Jolie not to have a female action hero wimpering and being carried off by a man, but surely that is only one emotion that a woman will feel. A lack of humor was keenly felt in this movie. Her English side-kicks only produced luke-warm chuckles, but perhaps this would have been different if the villain had had a couple of dupes for side-kicks. The positives to this movie are self-explanatory. We have a female action-hero who is not afraid to look feminine and have some sex appeal (without falling into the arms of every guy or any guy she lays eyes on.) The violence was not overly graphic and there was hardly any sexuality. I liked the idea of the movie's traveling to Angkor Wat to find the location of the sacred triangle, as this Cambodian location is so beautiful, yet so ignored by Hollywood. And of course, Angelina Jolie is beautiful and absolutely stunning to watch in action. You can rent this movie, enjoy it, but you won't find yourself captivated by it. Over all, a good, even if a little enigmatic, performance by Jolie, some nice scenery, a typical plot, but lacking in emotion or hilarity. Horrible Overhyped Garbage I'm glad women are finally starting to get more into action type films, but this Tomb Raider I was told was gonnah be the best female action star since Sigorney Weaver in Aliens. Oh, how I disagree with that on so many levels. Has this movie been praised because it stars a woman in skin tight clothing? Baring next to nothing? all while flying around, doing action seaqences, and over the top stuff like that? Because thats what I think has given this movie any appeal at all! I cannot stand Angelina Jolie, but putting that aside to actualy focus on the fact that she is portraying a rip-off of Indiana Jones, and wearing , well, what some people would consider sexy attire/cloths... but to me, sex doesnt sell a movie. If you havent got a good movie, then dont expect showing some skin will make it any better! The movie is terrible, Angelinas performance is sickiing, not only the cloths she wears to gain that attention of that kind of audience, but her acting both inhales and exhales (work it out, Amazon will filter my exact words for that) If your a guy who want to see a chick put on some sexy clothing to get your attention to try and distract you from a pointless ,un thought out scene with special FX from tiem to time, then you will love this movie! If you can actualy stand Angeliana Joalines conseeded acting, then you might like it. But if your like me, and see through the B.S of trying to get a sexy image to sell, then youll see how this movie fails to bring a decent woman onto the screen for an action role! I hope some actress becomes a super action star sometime soon, one maybe so even bigger then any male action star, but Angelina is not the one to look out for. Sex does not sell in my book! 0 stars Buy Lara Croft Tomb Raider at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Lara Croft Tomb Raider Search with the Priority Search Engine on Lara Croft Tomb Raider This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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