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Summary: Stupid movie, but Jolie is hot
Review: This had to be one of the silliest, most predictable, lowbrow movies I've ever seen. That said, I have to say that if you can withstand the barrage of bad plot choices, badly scripted lines, complete lack of any serious emotion, Angelina Jolie is definitely a cutie.Unfortunately, I can't lower myself to seeing a movie simply because the lead actress is hot. Most people can, I suppose, and that's cool. Personally, I wouldn't waste my time or money on this movie. I do hope I see Jolie in many movies in the future, though.
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Summary: Angelina Jolie is excellent
Review: I believe that Angelina Jolie is the only actress that could pull off a video character. She has the great range as an actress. The acting and scenery was equally great. The story had a great connection. The storyline really pulls you into the movie and the action. The movie has some very funny moments and is fun to watch.
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Summary: Enjoy the Thrill
Review: Angeline Jollie is definitely made for this role. It's not that her acting skill shines in this movie but the sheer fact that her personality simply oozes thru. Her presence is captivating in Tomb Raider, & unlike other video games turned movies which bombed in the box office (Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat), Tomb Raider worked. I wouldn't go that far of comparing it to the Indiana Jones franchise but I would say that it's a mixed bag between Batman (sharing Wayne's fate for losing his daddy & Lana was super wealthy & got to live in a huge mansion with all expensive toys imaginable & served by a butler with an impeccable taste & English accent), & Indiana Jones (for being an archealogist & got to travel to interesting places). Whereas Indiana Jones always got stuck in the thick of things & struggling to come out from the ordeal alive (& ocassionally with help from his ever devoted sidekicks), Lana Craft whopped arse in perfect choreography, always in the top of her fashionware & in most instances, all on her own. The fighting sequence against baddies was akin to computer games with a structural format & rite from the beginning, viewers knew for certain that Lana was never in any form of danger but simply sat down & enjoyed the ride. The other star that wasn't mentioned in Tomb Raider would be the Land Rover Defender, which was filled with state of the arts gadgets & was featured briefly during Lana's excursion to Cambodia. Overall, an enjoyable movie. If viewers were into fast paced movie similar to Con Air (directed by Simon West as well), this would have to be you.
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Summary: Exciting
Review: When I saw this in theatres when it came out I stood in line waiting for a newly big busted Angelina Jolie flash her stuff all over this movie with a frown and some disgust. I wanted to see a good movie, not a hyped up version of the game with naked shots to amuse and cajole the guys. What I got was a little of both and a pleasing tease of male booty too. Not too bad considering "someone" knew some females would be in the crowd too. Angelina played Croft pretty well and while I've never liked the video games I enjoyed the background history that the movie provided as well as the great kick-... action scenes that had my blood pumping. Obviously the stunts were near as impossible as they could get--I, like most anyone else, would have bruises for the rest of my life in every aspect of action that Laura presented INCLUDING that awesome fight scene on bungee chords. I liked it.
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Summary: if i could give less than 1 star, i would've...
Review: WOW, what an awful this movie was! Albeit, Angelina pulled through as foxy as ever .. the only reason to see this movie if you're a fan of hers. The game has more compassion and feel than this movie. The characters are dull and quite honestly all expendable. The plot is far from evolved and the climax -- wait, no, there was no climax. Three thumbs up for Angelina .. as for absolutely everything else in and about this movie, if you could hear a sound this is where'd I'd fart.
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Summary: Not bad, especially for a 'video game' movie...
Review: This movie, while admittedly lacking in aspects of character development, provided an overall enjoyable action ride. The stunt work was awesome, and the cinematography/special effects weren't bad either. I actually liked the absuridity of the plot, as a student of archaeology, in that it provided a nice fantasy, and didn't confuse too much fact with fiction (though I loved the Indy movies, they didn't do much to help the cause of true archaeologists to educate the public on matters ancient). And, really, the absuridity of this movie is no less than that of 'Temple of Doom' (a Thuggee temple? come on...). I'd say it was more realistic in many ways.... All in all, it was an enjoyable movie. If you're a fan of the games, or stunt-filled action flicks, buy it. If not, rent it anyway. Hey, it's better than 'The Mummy Returns'... (I'd even argue, better than ToD).
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Summary: Best archeological movie of the summer
Review: Tomb Raider is good movie, not as great as any of the Indiana Jones movies, but still good. Angelina Jolie was born to play this role. Best archeological movie of the summer.
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Summary: I can't wait.
Review: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was a great movie. I was excited when I went to see it. Heck, when I first saw the trailer for it I almost inhaled my straw.
The story went well with the game, even though the relationship between her and her father was a little cheesy, and her fighting a whole society instead of one person and their henchmen was a little weird. But hey, whatever.
Now everyone that's complaining that she travels too much in the movie can explain Tomb Raider II to me right?
Even if Angelina had a padded bra, (which I doubt, I mean, haven't you guys seen her other movies??) she still knows how to look and act the part, so leave her alone.
Anyway, referring back to her travels in this awseome movie, she travels to: India, Cambodia, and Siberia, and all three of those locations also coencide with her exotic travel locations in the games too.
Oh yeah, and about that giant stone Brahman everybody's complaining about? Well, in Tomb Raider III: the adventures of Lara Croft, she had to battle many six-sword weilding stone Shivas, so, I don't want to hear about the movie not being like videogame. Ok?
Angelina also does the amazing hops, flips, and jumps that I thought only a certain videogame heroine could do.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider has it all: action/adventure, comedy, romance, drama, and travel. Hey, after seeing this, I want to go to Cambodia. Why? I don't know.
But yeah, its a really cool movie, and you should go buy it.
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Summary: Tomb Raider Rocks!
Review: Angelina Jolie is Lara Croft. She sounds like her, has the lips, breasts, body, charm, and attitude of Lara. They couldn't have found a better actress to play Lara. I'm a big fan of the TR games and of Angelina, so I was really anticipating Tomb Raider: the movie. The only thing I was disapointed in was that there wasn't enough action. The action scenes that were in it were good, but I was expecting more. The movie revolved more around story, like Final Fantasy did. The special effects were decent, but for this day and age they should've been a lot better. Like for example the big statue that came to life. It looked very fake and made the scene kind of cheessie, like a couple of the action scenes. Overall, I being a fan was not disapointed. And since I'm a big Angelina fan too, it makes it even better. I'd give the movie 4 stars, but since Angelina is the perfect Lara, I have to give it 5 stars. Hats off to her for bringing Lara to life and doing so well on her english acsent.
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Summary: Eh...
Review: Well, I've been a tomb raider fan since the first game came out and was really looking forward to the movie. However, this version of the infamous Lara Croft wasn't nearly as good as the game was. There were plenty of elements in the movie that needed to be included -- the problem was they weren't balanced out evenly. The best parts of the movie were also the most overdone: the action. Whereas I can appreciate a girl kicking butt, there just was too much of it; it seemed as if the script was sacrificed in order to add more combat scenes. Action sequences can help make a good movie, but too many don't make it better. They also tried to be original, like with Lara beating up the bad guys while on a bungie-cord. I can just see the writers saying to themselves: "What kind of new action sequence can we write that's impressive yet not ripping off the Matrix? Yeah! A bungie-cord!" Whatever. The script was poorly written. Not that it had bad dialogue, but they tried to fit way too much into an hour and a half. The movie probably ran longer, but unfortunately was edited so heavily that it seems to skip a bit. Also, it tries too hard to be an action film while keeping a sentimental tear-jerking attitude, like Lara's memories of her dead father. We see Jolie's emotions switching around so much due to the fact that she only has seconds to go from sad to happy to sexy and sly, we almost wonder if it was just bad editing or did Jolie develop multiple personalities. Then we come to the actress Angelina Jolie. What can I say except it was very obvious that Jolie was having a good time pretending that she was Lara. Along with the winks, hip shifts, sly glances as well as the nose up in the air when she walks I wonder if Jolie played Tomb Raider and envisioned things that Lara never did in the game... but should have. Jolie seems to concentrate on Lara being a little bit too cool. I shouldn't be so critical with her, though, she did get directed in this film and was probably encouraged to portray Lara this way; Jolie's portrayal of Lara takes away from the fact that Lara is a competent, well-trained, brilliant adventurer and kind of concentrates on her assets that lean more towards toning. (Jolie even admitted that they augmented her breast size for the film.) How disappointing. I would have loved a female version of the infamous Indiana Jones and after watching "Tomb Raider" find myself still craving it. Unfortunately, Jolie's Lara Croft is simply too shallow and not enough substance. Of course, die hard fans of Tomb Raider who love Lara for her digital body as well as fans of Jolie's body really have nothing to worry about -- that is if eye candy is what you're looking for. Had promise, but failed. Action only -- no real depth. Go get the Indiana Jones trilogy instead.
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