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Lara Croft - Tomb Raider

Lara Croft - Tomb Raider

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: MASTERING HER CROFT
Review: Hey, what the heck! This is a movie adaptation of a video game, for pete's sake. What do you expect? This movie is flashy, fun, wildly ridiculous, campy, and adventurous. Angelina Jolie pouts and moves appropriately; the action sequences are well choreographed, and the bad guys lose. What more could one want in this type of movie. Iain Glen is sufficiently villainous; Daniel Craig is a hunky, if traitorous, former associate; Chris Barrie is delightful as Lara's manservant, Hillary; and Noah Taylor as nerdy Bryce couldn't be better. Grame Revill's score is nice, and Simon West's direction, while not all that original, moves the film along.
One shouldn't look for Oscar caliber material all the time; just sit back and watch instead of play the video game movie!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: This movie does work well, if you accept it for what it is
Review: Tomb Raider really is a good cross between a video game & a movie. It has the titillation, the roller coaster rides, the wonderful stretches into serious fantasy, etc. I personally also really like the "wire work" which looks like wire work - the movie doesn't try to give the impression that stuff is real. It's a fun flic to watch, if you accept it for with it is (& sit back & enjoy the ride as the phrase goes, in a mellow non-serious way). I give it 4.5 stars (and I really don't like the 2nd movie - they lost touch with what made the 1st movie kind of special)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Lara Croft Reborn
Review: Fans of the Tomb Raider games may grumble at the change in Lara's character. In the original game, she had been ostracized by her family after her survival of a crash. In the movie, she is a much-loved daughter, but orphaned. But it still works.

The key to the games is problem solving. In the movie, much of the problem solving is done off-screen so that it almost seems like Lara has all of the solutions already memorized.

A planetary conjunction is at the heart of the story. The conjunction is the only time when the pieces of a fabulous device from an ancient civilization may be found. An organization known as the Illuminati (based on the real group) is after the device. Lara is sucked in when she uncovers a key her father left her.

The story travels the globe with lavish sets and more action than most. From start to finish the action almost never stops and the story remains fairly true to the spirit of the games.

The disk comes packed with plenty of extras; deleted scenes, commentary, making of, effects, music video, etc. Of course some of the making of information is untrue (obvious if you followed any of the stories during the making of the film), but are still fun to watch.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: husband loves
Review: My family loves this movie, it is terrific. Lots of action, but yet not gory so that my little one can't watch. This is deffinetley a keeper.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: yum
Review: shes angelina. most beautiful star around. for that I give 5 stars. movie wasnt bad either. keep my attention.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Has Everything a Teenage Boy Needs
Review: Well Angelina Jolie did it again, she fulfilled her goal of making a complete badass chick sexy, which isnt very easy mind you. I mean how often is it that you see a badass look good, like never.

Anyway Tomb Raider, the first movie is a little well to much like the game. I mean you have nothing really to look forward for, that is the difficulty about remaking a story you dont really know how to do it

The first movie is about lara croft completing her fathers work in making a way to go back in time. But you know how it is, competetors bad guys, swinging from the ceiling, kicking swat team ass, same old same old.

I thought this movie had no chance but it sort of did so it was a little suprising, watch this then the sequel.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good action movie
Review: A good action movie. Angilina Jolie is an Awsome Lara Croft. I will watch it again.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Have seen better.....
Review: The first thought that I had in watching this movie was: this must be the attempt at a feminine edition of Indiana Jones. Unfortunately, Angelina Jolie just isn't very convincing. Granted, the story was pretty good. The idea of the Illuminati wanting to take over the world through the Triangle of Life seems good enough. However, what really did this movie in was the special effects, or lack thereof. Everything felt sooo...."video-gamish". It was so predictable. Croft would find objects so easily, and then from out of nowhere, would be monsters that she would have to fight and annihilate....and she would....then move on to the next adventure. It just seemed that the flow of the movie was so predictable....it really hurt the story's credibility. Don't get me wrong, if you are in the mood for a good romp...then by all means watch this movie. Just don't expect an intellectual thriller. Indiana Jones is a much better series for that kind of thing. Just sit back and ENJOY this one!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A little farfetched...
Review: So people actually think that a cult group called the Illuminate are going to try and take over the world...? Hmm...no...not with Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie)and her blazing guns.

I'm the starting she is in what seems to be a tomb and looking at an object...hmm, looks too small to be an object of interest. CRASH! The wall beside her explodes and a huge robot attacks her. Hmm again. A few acrobatic stunts and she starts to shoot the robot. And it's all pretty straight forward from there. She stops the robot and then retrieves the object in question. Then that darn robot comes back again..."STOP!" she says to it and it suddenly stops...hmm. She then enters a room where Bryce her geeky guy comes into the picture. He sorrows over the robot the Hillary come in(Her Butler). Blah blah blah. Then she soon finds out that the illuminate want the triangle that her gadget, which her father left for her in an old clock, can get the pieces for her...hmm.

She is now on her way to Cambodia where the first pieces is hidden...then the illuminate steals her gadget but she has the first pieces of the triangle...and from there she ffight to stop the illuminate from taking over the world.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: stinks rotten fish
Review: boy, oh, boy they really blew the hell outta this franchise and they shouldnt of made this movie at all. Angelina is really annoying in this part, its antiedupped by the butler who is played by Red Dwarf's Chris Barrie who portrays Rimmer on the show, he is the only thing likable in this fishy smelling film. the action scenes are a yawn and the ending with that globe thing is just a total waste of my time. its dead in the water for me


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