Tomb Raider

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Summary: Excellent Movie Companion!
Review: 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' is defintely my favorite action film. After seeing it twice in theaters, I decided that I had to get the movie novelization. I really loved this book. You get a little more description and more dialogue than in the movie. The relationship between Lara and Alex West is explored a little more and there is a bit more action. The novelization stays right with the movie, nothing is changed. The colored pictures fom the movie in the middle of this book were a great bonus. This is a fun and exciting read and if you loved 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' anywhere near the amount that I did, you'll be sure to love this book! You will enjoy it even if you haven't seen the movie!

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Summary: A great Tombraider Adventure... better than the video games
Review: Its a really good book... its a really quick read and everyone that are fans or that arent fans of Laura Croft and the Tomb Raider games should read it. I couldnt put it down. One of the best adventure books I have read.

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Summary: Terrific Book Based On The Terrific Movie "Tomb Raider"
Review: Lara Croft, adventurer, wakes up on the night of the first stage of the alignment of all nine planets, to the ticking of a mysterious old clock hidden in a secret room. She finds out that the ancient relic is called the All Seeing Eye, which will lead to the whereabouts of two pieces of metal which, when put together, forms a triangle. When these pieces of metal are put together at exactly the right moment, the pocessor will have the ability to control time. But Lara's clock is stolen by Manfred Powell, a member of the Illuminati, a group who has a diabolical plan to use the power for themselves, steals the clock. Now its up to her to find the two pieces of the triangle before Powell does, with the help of gadget whiz Bryce and sort of boyfriend/enemy, Alex West.

As always, the movie and the novelizations are different which is the case of the movie and this book. But both are good in different ways. This book was great because though it didn't have as much action as it did in the movie, it had plenty of explanations to some parts you wouldn't understand watching "Tomb Raider", and there's also more conversation and humor. But the movie is better in that it has more action, though not so much conversation.

Enjoy! This book is lots of fun to read and can be enjoyed by both kids and adults. I'd also like to try to get the adult version of the book "Tomb Raider", written by Dave Stern.

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Summary: Excellent! The movie followed the book very well too.
Review: Long ago a meteor fell onto Earth with a magical, metallic form within it. Witnessing its power, it was forged into the (thought of) holy form of a triangle and a temple was formed to protect it. A city grew around the temple, The People of the Light were there. During an invasion, the nine planets aligned and the power of the Triangle was shown. Realizing no mortal should possess such power, the High Priest ordered it cut into two smaller triangles. One stayed at the temple. The other was hidden at the end of the Earth. However, the Craftsman who cut the Triangle in half secretly made a highly advanced device. It could serve as a guide to find the hidden piece, and preserve the Triangle's powers for future generations. It was a magic clock.

Lady Lara Croft was much like her father had been. Beginning with a clock he had hidden for her to find someday and tales he had told her as a child, she must set out to save the world. The Illuminati, a secret group of powerful people, were out to find the two triangle pieces before the planets aligned (which happened only once every 5,000 years). At her side was Mr. Hillary, her butler, and Bryce, her technician. Two tombs must be entered and survived or the world would belong to Manfred Powell.

***** I made that brief as possible, but left out much to do it. Even though the movie, as of now, has not been released, I can already tell that the book gives much more insight to Lara and the adventure in which she finds herself. However, many scenes have the potential to be much more vivid and exciting on the big screens! I found it to be a wonderful book! I plan to be in the theater, with a huge group of friends, on its first night out! *****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

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Summary: Totally Awesome!!
Review: This book was just.. WOW!! It was way better then the movie, b/c the movie can only put a certain amount of scenes, but the book you get it all! i loved all the stuff between lara and alex, if you are a lara/alex fan this book is definatly for you!!

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Summary: Great Movie Novelization
Review: This is a great movie novelization unlike most. In this case, the book is much better than the movie, which in some novelizations, is not the case at all. The writer actually has some talent that made me want more. When the second book came out, I bought it right away. A very good book for any scifi action lover! A really great read! Five Stars!

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Summary: Great Movie Novelization
Review: This is a great movie novelization unlike most. In this case, the book is much better than the movie, which in some novelizations, is not the case at all. The writer actually has some talent that made me want more. When the second book came out, I bought it right away. A very good book for any scifi action lover! A really great read! Five Stars!

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Summary: Nice companion to the movie
Review: This is a really interesting companion book to the movie. It includes information on all sorts of things from the major characters and their backgrounds, interviews with the actors, and chapters on set design and location stories. The interview with Angelina Jolie is quite fascinating and shows in part her own complexity and depth, and it's quite enjoyable reading about the other actors such as Noah Taylor and Daniel Craig (Bryce and Alex respectively) and hearing how they view their characters.

Beautiful pictures (although clearly marketed to the boys with a few too many close up pics of Lara C), especially the ones of Cambodia, make this an attractive book, and the history of Lara Croft (originally Laura Cruise) from idea to computer game heroine to big screen personality is again a good feature of the book. Admittedly, this movie companion book falls flat in the face of other movie books such as the ones for "Moulin Rouge" and "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon", both of which are beautiful examples of how to give viewers something to remember the movie by, something to really capture the essence of a movie. This one doesn't do it, with no screenplay (not much of one to start with anyways) and not much thought put into it, although to be fair the essence of this movie is probably a couple of guns and a skimpy wardrobe; not the easiest things to market in book form!

The best part about this book is that it hints at what the screenplay fails to do: it gives some idea of what the producers might have been hoping to achieve with the movie. Don't get me wrong, I loved the movie or I wouldn't have bought this book, but there's no doubt the storyline in the movie is thin and at times utterly confusing and odd. This book by containing a few more of the ideas and storyline behind "Tomb Raider", really points you towards a more complex storyline, one that actually makes sense.

But Angelina Jolie's comments alone are worth the price of the book, in her interview she says that after making the movie she was left with a sense of adventure, that we should all be going out there and experiencing life, travel, the world, for ourselves. Not just living vicariously through books and movies and computer games. That's definitely something for us all to keep in mind!

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Summary: A GREAT NOVELIZATION OF THE FEATURE FILM!
Review: Very good in fact. It adds alot to the movie. More fleshed out characters and such. It's only 6 bucks, so what do you have to ose? Another plus is the 8 pages of pictures featuring the amazingly beautiful Angelina Jolie.