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Summary: This is a fun movie!
Review: About a year ago I stumbled on the trailer for this movie .... Up to that time I had heard the name Angelina Jolie, but I had never seen her, and I didn't have a clue as to who Lara Croft was. As soon as it was released, I went to see it and, in spite of some of the negative reviews shown here, I really liked it. It is an "Indiana Jones" with a female lead. That's bad? Boys and girls this is a fantasy adventure. Don't over-analyze it. The acting is good, the effects are good and, overall, it is very entertaining. Leave it at that, buy the movie and enjoy! I introduced Lara Croft to my six and three year old grandsons and they enjoyed "Tomb Raider". So now there are three fans in my family. I see that there are several very negative reviews that have been posted subsequent to mine and I am not sure why. I still (as of September 25, 2002) think this is a fun movie and, every so often, I watch it again. My grandsons and I are looking forward to TOMB RAIDER 2 in 2003.
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Summary: When's the sequel coming out?
Review: I was VERY skeptical about this movie when I first saw it in theaters. I was afraid it was going to be little more than explosions and Angelina Jolie's cleavage spliced together with some incoherent dialogue to string the scenes along. Thankfully, the movie is nothing of the sort. It is one of the best movies I have ever seen and am impatiently awaiting the sequel. The plot and the acting is as good as the special effects and sets. (Which even *I* found surprising) Lara's character comes across much like it does in the video games and she does appear as a good role model. Even the soundtrack and the original score are excellent. The only thing I *didn't* like about this movie was that it was too short. So this leaves only one question: When's the sequel coming out?
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Summary: Angelina Jolie was perfect
Review: What's so wrong with this movie? I thought it was good. People just don't want to appreciate it for what it is. Angelina Jolie was perfect as our leading lady Lara Croft. So, here's my advice: Don't pay any attention to those 1, 2 or 3 star reviewers and see this movie. You may like it.
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Summary: Good but not great
Review: This was an ok movie but not the best.It had great action and great skill and followed a good stroy lnie till the end.The end I didn't get at all.I thought it was stupid and still I didn't get it.If you get movies like this then get it.But if your like me and you don't get it at all then don't get it.Alaso it's just a bit of a money waste.
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Summary: Yeah it's silly but that's part of the fun
Review: This was an "Indiana Jones.." movie for women. Angelina Jolie is both tough and hot, appealing to both men and women. The effects are very good and despite other reviews, the acting was very good (critics must remember to watch an actor's face as well as hearing the dialogue). This is the type of movie that is just for fun, so if you go into it trying to find fault in ridiculous situations you won't be disappointed. I hope there's a sequel in the works.
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Summary: This bites
Review: I am a videogame otaku and as one this movie affends me.This film is... nothing like the game....angelina jolie gives a horrid preformence in a movie that is almost as bad as the american street fighter film.I hate this movie the (poor)excuse for a story and its medicore special effects make it one of the worst action movies ever made...
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Summary: Save your money.
Review: In the first scene it is made clear that Lara is not in any danger, and she remains in no danger throughout the movie.
This is 90% of the plot, and the rest is even less worthy of discussion.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This movie is so pathetic. It could have been a very substance type role for Angelina Jolie, as the character of Lara Croft is supposed to be an intelligent seeker of lost artifacts who is still feeling the loss of her father. The lack of a good story is evident by the over-kill of special effects and high tech gadgets. The search for the magic clock that can stop or reverse time was also a missed opportunity, they never fully went into detail about it. Simon West, a mediocre director at best, is not known for movies where character development is prevalent. I mean, in his Con Air, he has accomplished actors like John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames and John Malkovich, but ends up making them paper characters, secondary to his image that movies should be a montage of 5 second cuts and involve one big explosion after another. The writing awful and the story they provide is so preposterous, that they should be blacklisted for trying to make the already simple minded summer audiences into mindless zombies. The only positive aspect that this movie has is watching Angelina Jolie run around for two hours in tight fitting clothes. That however, cannot save this dreadfully awful waste of time. Combine this with a one sided badguy who the director badly portrays as neither very evil or redeemably good and a love interest that she seems more annoyed with, Tomb Raider is my pick as one of the worst summer popcorn movies of 2001.
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Summary: Check Your Brain at the Door and Have Fun
Review: "Tomb Raider"--the movie--is just what the previews indicated it would be: "Indiana Jones" with curves. Lara Croft, the clever, gun-toting heroine is fun to watch as she tracks down pieces of an artifact that will enable the possessor to control time. The combination of having to solve interesting puzzles and kicking butt makes this a cut above the typical action movie. Her hunt takes us around the globe as she races against an astronomical deadline and the obligatory bad guys who also seek the artifact. Angelina Jolie makes Lady Croft a lot of fun. Although I'm not usually a fan of chase-scene-followed-by-explosions movies, I truly enjoyed "Tomb Raider." In fact, I became so hooked that I bought the video game--something else that I usually don't do.
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Summary: Horrid
Review: I give it two stars only because there were some decent action sequences. A lot of the reviewers seem to think that because it's the action genre that we should expect to check our brains at the door, but I disagree. I expected the movie to at least tie together somewhat and not be completely insipid. Unfortunately, it had major major plot problems that just irritated me throughout and in fact made it painful to keep watching, because the plot hole destroyed the credibility of the main character. To explain, Lady Croft (man, that got annoying hearing her referred to so formally all throughout the flick) needs to keep the villain from getting two halves of a pyramid to put together, which will enable him to be essentially master of the universe. So what do these filmwriters do? They have Lady Croft find the first piece of the pyramid fairly early on in the film. That should have been the end of the story, because the villain needed both halves to wreak his destruction. At that point, with one half in her possession, she could destroy it and put an end to the whole thing. But no. She has to go after the second half. And there is never any justification for why she would need to do this. Pointless. Had the writers simply given the villain the first piece of the pyramid, this would have come together decently and actually created some drama. They didn't. It didn't work. And I spent the last half of the film cursing the protagonist for being a complete moron.
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