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Summary: jolie as lara...
Review: ... is quite entertaining and as usual, excellent. honestly, i think she's believable as croft, and i really, really liked the first movie. unfortunately, i think this one fails to live up to the expectations.hey, i'm not a demanding moviegoer, and i do enjoy mindless entertainment on a regular basis. except, TOMB RAIDER was not only pure entertainment, it was also believable. well okay, not totally believable, but other than the supernatural aspect of whatever artifact that croft always encounter, jolie makes croft a 3 dimensional character, making it more than just a heroine trying to save the world. CRADLE OF LIFE unfortunately, lacks the certain something that made TOMB RAIDER special. for me, it lacks the emotional depth of the first movie. while croft had to come to terms with her father's death in the first, the human interest in this one is barely original - there's the need to avenge friends and the return of an ex-lover - with none of he tight scripting and great plot of it's predecessor. to my jaded eyes this movie looks like an expensive advertisement and the producers blatantly used product placement to rake in the advertising money, while leaving the artistic aspect of the movie (the plot, in this case) to languish and plods along throughout the movie like a forgotten piece of prop. i have nothing against product placement and all that jazz, but when that is used to cover a flimsy and superficial plot, i get roaring mad. it's not a pretty sight. CRADLE OF LIFE concerns the race to get to THE pandora's box. here croft is joined by an old friend in the search of this box. but before that they have to get their hands on the map that will lead them to the erstwhile unknown residence of the box. this is actually not that far off in formula compared to the original, but man, execution of the plot is... rather poor and the story meandering. should have spent the millions to tighten it... man, this could have been a really, really excellent movie. jolie as lara: 5 stars
plot and execution: 1 star too bad! hope they come up with a better one soon...
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Summary: Jolie brings us Lara Croft like you've never seen her before
Review: In a new action-packed sequel, Angelina Jolie is the daring and eccentric Lara Croft once again. Producer Lloyd Levin says, "Our difficulty was how to up the ante and make it a bigger and better epic in every conceivable way without repeating what we had already done before." Well, working together to do this, visual effects director Jan De Bont and Angelina herself succeed in producing the kind of stunts that make your blood pump. If there's ever a successful sequel to a James Bond/Indiana Jones type of movie that headlines a female lead, this is going to be it. And I put Tomb Raider in the same category as James Bond and Indiana Jones with ease; this series is going to be the next best thing, if not the next better thing. Also, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life is not simply a continuation or an almost exact repeat of its predecessor; it's a whole new adventure. Get ready for another hit of Lara's lock and load lesson.
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Summary: I look forward to this.
Review: The first movie was good. I fear this one slightly because the second movie "normally" is worse. Don't listen to critics you just want to argue about something. Sure, the game to movie craze sometimes doesn't seem to work as well as fans hope (Final Fantasy) but Tomb Raider is the best, in my opinion, of the "game movies," while Final Fantasy was the worst. This is for the action/adventure/fantasy fans, people who want to watch drama/action and nothing else (I read other reviews) should find something they like and ignore the trailors. While some may hate this movie and its predicesor, I am more than likely hating their favorite movie. Give things a chance; you never know if you'd like it, to you see it. Otherwise shut your mouth and let people who want to see it find their own views! ""If you see something interesting in the Blair Witch Project movie, you must be blind...""
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Summary: Better than the first!!!
Review: This is better than the first Tomb Raider. Angelina Jolie is excellent as Lara Croft, she has the attitude, accent, and looks down perfect. This film is set in HK and Africa, gonna be the best film of the summer. They should definitely make a Tomb Raider III.
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Summary: Girls kicking butt !!!
Review: Angelina Jolie is a great actress; and she does a fantastic job in the "Lara Croft" movies; the stunts were breath taking; and so were some of the locations; a great addition to your DVD library.
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Summary: The best tombraider movie hits the best in dvd
Review: I love this movie, and it's better than the first. She goes to all these places, I recommend this Movie. I'm also selling mines so e-mail me at JJ_025@lycos.com
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Summary: A JOLIE GOOD SHOW
Review: This sequel to the original is more entertaining and visually interesting than the first. Jolie returns as the indefatigable Lara Croft, aided this time by Gerard Butler (Dracula 2000, Timeline), a former Marine turned mercenary/traitor. Butler and Jolie have a fairly good comraderie, although it's definitely Jolie's move every way. Ciaran Hinds (Road to Perdition, Sum of All Fears, Veronica Guerin) makes for a sturdy villain, all grimace and spit. The movie revolves around the search for the mythical Pandora's Box; Hinds plays a viral bacteriologist who can release deadly viruses and he wants the box to let loose the contents of Pandora's box as the ultimate weapon.
Jan deBont (Speed) directs with a kinetic energy, and Alan Silvestri's score is impressive.
The ending is a real shocker in some ways; in the extras, we see an alternate ending that was less visceral.
Don't know whether this series will go on but it should have a little life left?
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Summary: "Do you ever do anything the easy way?"
Review: Following the first Lara Croft-based film in 2001, "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider", Angelina Jolie resurrected her role as Lara Croft in the 2003 sequel "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life". Written by Steven E. de Souza, James V. Hart and Dean Georgaris, this second film finds Lara Croft searching a Greek temple that had been lost for many centuries until an earthquake made its location known. The temple had been created by Alexander the Great, but had been swallowed into the Aegean Sea during a much earlier earthquake. Swimming down into the depths with two companions, Lara enters the temple, which is quickly giving way to the enormous pressure from the sea above, but discovers an unusual orb being held by a huge statue. She quickly climbs up to get the orb, but others who also want the orb enter the tomb and are lead by a Chinese mafia leader, Chen Lo (Simon Yam). Chen gets the orb from Lara, who barely manages to escape the underwater temple alive. The orb is an ancient map to finding Pandora's box and those who paid Chen to retrieve it, under the leadership of Jonathan Reiss (Ciarán Hinds), want to sell its deadly power to the highest bidders. After being asked by British intelligence to locate the orb, Lara obtains assistance from an imprisoned mercenary named Terry Sheridan (Gerald Butler), who accompanies Lara to China in search of Chen and his Chinese mafia gang. Though they locate the gang, Reiss gets the orb after several well-choreographed fisticuffs between Lara & Sheridan with Reiss's people and the Chinese gang. However, Lara is finally successful in obtaining the orb from Reiss at his lab, which is located in a busy shopping center in Hong Kong. With the secret to interpret the orb, Lara discovers the whereabouts of Pandora's box and sets off to retrieve it, but Reiss and his men are hot on her tail.
With a lot of fun choreographed fights and various special effects, "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" is an entertaining film and was certainly better than the first Lara Croft film in 2001. Memorable scenes include the Greek temple, Lara's home in England, the trip to China, Hong Kong and the scenes in Africa. Overall, I rate it with 3.5 stars rounded up to 4 stars. It's not a great film, but it is entertaining.
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Summary: Yeah, So She's Hawt, But This Movie Isn't
Review: Okay, okay, so I admit it - I rented this movie specifically to get a peek at Angelina Jolie in a few skimpy outfits. I knew it wasn't "Citizen Kane" going into it, but I really didn't know the meaning of pain until the movie started. And I didn't know the meaning of relief until I hit the eject button about 15 minutes later. This has to be the most ridiculous movie of the year. It's hard to believe that Jolie, a wonderful actress who gave us "Gia", "Girl Interrupted" and "Hackers" even agreed to read this script. I don't know how much she was paid to reprise her role as Lara Croft, but they'd have to have paid me at least a million to suffer through the screenplay much less the movie itself. There are two ways to do a movie with a "pulp adventure" feel. One is go the route of the Indiana Jones movies, where the dialogue is crisp, the script is smart, and even though the scenes somewhat defy physics, don't go too overboard. The second way is to go the Buckaroo Banzai route, in that the over the top characters exist in their own universe and that universe is consistent throughout. "Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life" does none of this. It's a bad James Bond movie. It's an even worse Indiana Jones movie, and it doesn't even come close to the sly wink of a Buckaroo Banzai movie. You know you are in trouble, when, in the first ten minutes, Croft, trapped underwater without her scuba gear, deliberately cuts herself to attract a great white shark, then, when said shark appears, punches it in the nose to teach it who's boss, then rides it to the surface. I got a sore throat and laryngytis from hollering "You have got to be kidding me!" at the screen so much. And that was after about 20 minutes. I can't even imagine the pain I'd have felt if I'd watched the entire movie. Avoid this turkey at all costs and rent one of the movies mentioned in the series above.
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Summary: Not bad at all
Review: This is not bad. The movie is interesting, exciting. Angelina Jolie acts perfect in this movie. The story and visual is just great. Also, the surprise in this movie is Simon Yam and Terence Yin, they acts good as their debut in Hollywood. So, it is a good one.
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