Lara Croft - Tomb Raider

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Summary: This Year's Best Action Movie
Review: Tomb Raider is this year's best action movie.Anjoline Jolie shines as Lara Croft and gives a great performance.The action scenes are fantastic and the effects are great espacially the scene in the cave in the jungle where those goilla looking statues come to life and those griffins come to life and when that huge statue comes to life with the swords the scene in her house with the bungi cord and the motor cycle scene were awesome also the robot scene was pretty cool.See This.This is a MUST SEE.

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Summary: the best movie
Review: Ok, this movie starring Angelina Jolie is the best thats been made all the games are terrific and the movie adds up to what the games do. She looks sexy and great in i and does live up to what the game Tomb Raider is. I thank Siman West for making the movie he adds all the game into it. I just cant wait to see the next one! I rate it 5 stars because its great.

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Summary: Worst Movie of the Year
Review: I've finally found it...the worst movie of 2001 (so far) I like just about any kind of movie but I must say there was no enjoying this movie. I kept waiting for the movie to get good (which of course it didn't) The plot is virtually nonexistent, though attempting to be very complex. I found the story more interesting with the half hour Tomb Raider special on MTV. Transition scenes are horrible. One minute, Lara's in the jungle, the next she's in Iceland. Ahhh what could have been with this movie...Note to Angelina and company, spare us and DON'T MAKE ANY SEQUELS!!!!!

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Summary: Worst Movie Ever
Review: Ok, after watching this movie I not only felt sorry for all of us that paid to watch it ( they should have paid us ), but I felt really sorry for the cast and crew including Jolie. Why would an Oscar caliber actress sink so low to make a movie without any semblance of a plot. I know that action movies often forgo this part of the movie making process, but the screen play of this movie could have been written by a ten year old and that seemed like it was exactly the age group that the movie was targeting. If you have any intelligence or self respect at all don't waste two (or so) hours of you life on this ...

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Summary: TOOOOOO SHORT!!
Review: Tomb Raider is great summer fun, but like last years X-men it fails to drag itself out long enough for us Red Blooded Americans to get our fill of mind blowing action. I really enjoyed this movie a lot i just wish the film makers had made a longer movie. Not only was the movie too short there also was not enough Tomb Raiding. There is one major action scene in the beginning where Lara Croft's house is being attacked, while incredibly well done its not needed. What should have replaced that scene is more of Lara in some Tombs. 70% of this movie should have taken place in Tombs. While it doesn't meet eyes with Both of The Mummy's and all of the Indiana Jones it is great summer fun. But if you really want a good action movie go catch Swordfish which is so far this summers best action movie. All things aside Tomb Raider scores in my book!

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Summary: How is Tomb Raider you asked??
Review: Tomb Raider is an action packed exciting movie. It'll have you holding on to your seat with a some laughter. This movie is clearly a five star one. Angelina Jolie is absolutely exciting as Tomb Raider no one else could have played the part better.

P.S Angelina is sooooo cool i love her,lol

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Summary: Terrible
Review: I am an action movie fan. I have liked movies that came across as so-so to most people I know. I even bought a B-movie with an attitude called Mean Guns. But this movie HURT!

Jolie did a great job with a rather limited role. The character of Lara Croft presented had absolutely no depth. Otherwise, the movie went from boring to plain sad.

Several characters just plain didn't need to be there. (The main bad guy's lackey, and Lara's tech specialist) They had no significant role or real purpose.

The action sequences were either laughable or dumb. (A "trained mercenary" stands still for 10 seconds trying to aim an automatic rifle at Croft as she is coming near directly at him.) In addition, the whole bungee war sequence in the mansion was awful.

The villian just wasn't menacing. With his odd fetish of trying to live as Persian royalty, he just seemed wormy. At times, he was even geeky.

The special effects weren't even that interesting. While they were prevalent, they were highly gratuitous, and often overdone. The stone textures were so over-rendered, they looked more like Playstation graphics. Several sequences, such as Lara and Mr. Bad Guy running up a techno-pyramid just had no logic behind them. Even as symbolism and "just plain fun", it didn't work.

I wouldn't tell anyone to see Tomb Raider. There was nothing redemable about a film that seemed to send the most time trying to fit Jolie into spandex tops. I nearly fell asleep three times...

If I didn't see Evolution an hour later, I would have had one heck of a frown on my face.

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Summary: Lara Croft Tomb Raider...
Review: Tomb Raider was by far one of the best movies i've ever seeI love everything about it. Angelina Jolie did an awsome job she is my favorite actress. In every movie she is in she is the star even if it isnt mainly about her. She gets into the character so much it makes the expeirience of the movie all the more realistic!!!!!!!!!!I LOVE TOMB RAIDER!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Big-screen videogame lacks humor and sexual tension
Review: Okay, here's the point you most want to hear: Angelina Jolie is most definitely an excellent screen Lara Croft, and should put an end to the endless fandom grumblings and cries of "she's no Rhona Mitra." Jolie and the screenplay bring three-dimensionality (in more ways than one, nudge nudge wink wink) to the cult videogame character, and the backstory of the her father's death (Jolie's dad Jon Voight seems like stunt-casting, but it works) is touching without being cloying. The only aspect that made me snicker at Jolie was the rather unconvincing padded bra used to get Jolie up to the, ahem, dimensions of the videogame Lara.

But where "Tomb Raider" fails is in its script. Sure, there's action and adventure and great scenery and a touching father-daughter subplot, but there's a definite lack of consistent humor or romance in it. In my opinion, the leaping, derring-do, and relentless loud gunfire would have certainly been leavened by a few more quiet scenes that ma!de us laugh or that established a sexual tension between Lara and her adversary, the slick and smooth but black-hearted Powell. The producers miss the boat by not adding the sort of humor and sexual tension that makes successful similar films (like the Indiana Jones or James Bond series) fun to watch for reasons other than the action. A good comparable would be the ultra-successful "Charlie's Angels" movie: strong female characters, action sequences, but also funny moments and romantic subplots.

What very little humor in the film is injected by a couple of the supporting characters: Lara's technogeek assistant Bryce and her faithful, long-suffering butler Hillary (a nicely understated bit of acting by "Red Dwarf"'s Chris Barrie, whose character is sadly abandoned about halfway through the film). But the tongue-in-cheek comments come few and far between. Come on! We're talking about an overproportioned beauty queen firing whopping great guns at three-faced stone idols..!.you mean to tell me there's not anything the *slightest* bit ridiculous about that? In short, the screenplay--and Lara--take themselves way too seriously. Jolie *can* play this sort of humor: there's a funny scene halfway through the film where a UPS deliveryman is aghast at the after-battle damage to Croft Manor; an offhanded comment by Lara about redecorating is delivered with a sharp and casual tongue-in-cheek quality that defuses the tension of the preceding hardcore action scene. But this is one of the few and far-between scenes that made me laugh.

There's a bit of sexual tension in the character of Alex West, a rival tomb raider who apparently (it's never quite spelled out) has had a past romantic relationship with Lara. One nude scene (no, no, fanboys, it's not Lara!) does not a romance make. The point is not that just because the hero is a girl, there *should* be kissy-stuff going on, but c'mon...to cast an international sex symbol like Jolie and not utilize !this aspect of both her personality *and* the character appeal of Lara Croft is plain-out missing the boat.

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Summary: An Action packed adventure!
Review: Tomb Raider is an action packed adventure filled with tons of atitude! The reason i gave it 3 stars was:

unpositve comments: 1.There is BREIF Nudity that I think they didn't need in the movie. positive: 1. They didn't use much blood OR gore--just the right amount without over doing it. 2. Lara Croft undergoes every single peice of action and never says one cuss word. 3. This movie keeps you going allong with action and some humor. 4. Angelina Jolie is the perfect Lara Croft.

Overall, if you like the game see the movie! When your done make your own adventures with a Tomb Raider action figure. Also, if your unsure read the book.