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Summary: I felt I was watching the game come to life before my eyes
Review: Loved the game/loved the movie. I could not believe how true to the game the movie was. Angelina Jolie was a perfect pick to play Lara Croft. Action packed, fast moving, over the top sets. What more can I say. If you have ever played the game then the movie is a must see.
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Summary: Angelina Jolie is the best Lara Croft ever!!
Review: I was a really big fan of the "Tomb Raider" phenomenon when the whole thing began on PlayStation and PC, and I knew that there was going to be a movie someday, it was just the matter of when they are going to release it. Now comes the hard part...who will be Lara Croft?! Well, I always thought that either Sandra Bullock, Elizabeth Hurley, and even Demi Moore would be among the lucky ones to play Lara. But when Angelina Jolie secured the part, man, was I going to get a real kick out of this!! When I finally saw it in the theaters, I thought that the movie was great! I loved how Angelina flew up to her chandelier on her bungee cord and the way she shoots both her guns at the same time, now that's something that the skills of an expert can handle! And now, I have the DVD of "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider", and I love all the extras that are jam packed into the DVD, such as the U2 music video, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes footage, cast and crew interviews, and much more! In closing, I would just like to say that Angelina Jolie is quite frankly the absolute best Lara Croft around. And "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" is possibly one of Angelina Jolie's best films since "Gia", "Hackers", and "The Bone Collector". This is more fun than playing the video games of this!!
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Summary: Got Tomb Raider?
Review: Lara Croft on the silver screen? This is what every video gamer's been waiting for! Likewise, they have every right to be disappointed. The first problem I had with this movie was that it isn't even based on the video games. It has the name... and that's about it. Actually, I felt like this movie was more of a James Bond meets Indiana Jones meets Final Fantasy. The plot was very deep and complex and perplexing, which is good, but that's more for Columbo and Sherlock. It also had [some] really good action scenes, but there was too much "black magic" involved to make it feel realistic. Other times, the action looked incredibly cheesy and I almost felt sorry for Angelina Jolie. Speaking of such, she fits Croft well, but her (and just about everyone else's) acting is not that great at all. -- Overall, there's about fifteen minutes of Tomb Raider in here, but I have no idea where they got the rest. Everyone and their dog will want to see this, but you'll soon find you only went because the lead roll was cute... and nothing more.
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Summary: This is the reason why Video games do poorly as movies.
Review: The Tombraider series has done well as a video game, mainly due to it's good gameplay and the main character, which the designers managed to give a personality (as well as breasts)that supersedes the other paper thin characters in the video game market. However, that does not mean that it would transfer well into good cinema, where breasts just don't cut it as good character development or story telling. The film project starts well enough by getting Angelina Jolie. While her accent in this movie is mixed at best, she looks the part and has the body to match. However, the rest of the pieces that make the Tomb Raider pie fall completely short. 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 (at that time), 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 team is little better and the story they provide is so preposterous, that they should be blacklisted for trying to subvert the already simple minded summer audiences into mindless zombies. Lara Croft is a rich aristocrat type who is also a part proclaimed archaeologist. She get's this from her father who is also an archaeologist, but mysteriously disappeared while trying to find the location of the "Clock of Ages", a wonderous object that can bend time when the planets are aligned (once every 5K years). The force behind finding the clock and it's various parts is a group called the Illuminati, and they discover that Lara unwittingly has the first piece, which is needed to find the other two pieces, which operate the clock. There are many problems that even my huge "suspension of disbelief" mind cannot ignore. 1. It seems like Lara knows every language in the world. I mean, how many people can fluently speak Thai, Russian and can read obscure symbolic mumbo jumbo like it was all English? 2. She is bullet proof. She has the Arnold Swartzennegger, Commando syndrome, where bullets do not apply to her. 15 Commandos raid her home and she takes them all out without the need of a gun. 3. Scenes which involve getting a piece for the clock are arranged just like a video. Okay, I know this is based off a video game, but do you have to make it THAT obvious? 4. She is immune to cold. How many people can cross the Siberian wasteland in a T-shirt and a thin (often open) jacket? 5. She doesn't have to think. All the mysteries are given to her. And anything she doesn't know, the movie gods give her the answer without having to research any of it (this becomes apparent when a dog at the end of the movie walks through something that no one on earth has ever have seen before). Of course Lara knows that was a "time storm" and the effect that it would have, as if she sees such things on a regular basis. Lara also doesn't seem to have much of a pulse. Her facial expression never seems to portray fear, nervousness or a sense that she might be in big trouble. Her voice rarely climbs above that sultry level she speaks, even if ten stone soldiers just tried to kill her. 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. The DVD does a fair transfer and the sound effects are well done. If I had more interest in this movie, I would have checked out the special features, but I didn't. I turned this DVD off as the first credit opened and returned it for my money back
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Summary: Lara Croft - Tomb Raider
Review: This was absolutely AWFUL. This movie was played up as being super. Just the opposite. The acting was terrible.
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Summary: Right up there with attack of the killer tomatoes
Review: Geez, aren't there any negative stars I can give this movie? The train of logic through this movie is non-existent, the character development is non-existent and things blow up for no obvious reason other than that an explosion would be cool. Battle robots have armor you can peel up with your hands. She looks like Lara Croft and is very attractive in this movie, unfortunately she also has as much personality as your average video game character. I love action adventure, stupid comedies, etc. I wasn't looking for Shakespeare here, just some diversion from life for a couple of hours. However, ...you will be seriously disappointed. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Great Effects...Lousy Story
Review: That about sums it up...I think we are seeing WAY too many of these post-Indiana Jones movies...
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Summary: Great plot. Great action
Review: This a super good movie. Angelina Jolie makes a great Lara Croft. The extensive plot captivates viewers of all ages. The people claiming to think this movie is garbage must have had their eyes closed or saw a different movie because what I saw was pure exhileration, action, and of course pure Lara Croft(Angelina Jolie). What else could you need in a movie. This movie is not what all the critics think it is, for it is an awesome movie with a great actress and wondreful plot. I'd be willing to pay double price if that were my only option to see it again. If I were you, I'd go and see the movie if you haven't already and then you go and say what you think. You could think I'm a blabbing idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about or you could agree with me that this movie needs to be reconsidered for an Academy Award. This is a great movie and everyone should see it.
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Summary: Movie Trailers are Missing
Review: Compares to other recent popular releases (e.g. Shrek, Star Wars - Episode I, Mummy Returns, etc.), this release from Paramount is a bit more pricey. Other companies are putting out 2-DVD sets with plenty of supplements and are all competitively priced. In Tomb Raider's case, it is just a 1-DVD set and the movie trailers are conspicuously missing from the package. Video & audio qualities are not demonstration quality but nontheless very satisfactory. Looks like Paramount needs to increase the value factor in order to catch up with what are offered by Warner and Dreamsworks and the likes.
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Summary: Super cool!!!
Review: I can't say enough good things. I promis not to make this too boring. But it was a really good movie. I liked the story eventough there could of been more puzzles, it was really good. it has funny parts too. But the acton is great and I her that the DVD has some cool speasil features
thats it.
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