Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

A popular video game comes to the screen with this big-budget adventure starring Angelina Jolie as a buxom heroine recalling equal parts Indiana Jones and James Bond. Jolie is Lara Croft, a proper British aristocrat groomed at schools for the children of the elite. Croft leads a double life, however, as an acquirer of lost antiquities through questionable means, highly trained in combat skills with the help of a robotic opponent called Simon. Despite her exciting profession and a life of wealth and breeding, Lara pines for her father, Lord Croft (Jon Voight), whose passing left her orphaned. On the eve of a celestial event that will also mark the anniversary of Lord Croft's death, Lara comes up against an ancient organization called the Illuminati, represented by the sinister Powell (Iain Glen), who's in pursuit of an ancient relic with power over time and even death itself

 With the aid of her high-tech support team, Lara travels to some exotic locales in search of the artifact, including a foray into a decrepit Asian temple guarded by lethal stone apes and other creatures that spring to life. Filmed at various locations in Great Britain as well as Iceland and the Angkor Wat temples of Cambodia, Tomb Raider co-stars Noah Taylor, Chris Barrie, Daniel Craig, Rachel Appleton, Leslie Phillips, Mark Collie, and Julian Rhind-Tutt. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

  

CRITIC REVIEWS FOR LARA CROFT - TOMB RAIDER

Critics Consensus

Angelina Jolie is perfect for the role of Lara Croft, but even she can't save the movie from a senseless plot and action sequences with no emotional impact.

Stephen Hunter

Novelist. essayist. film critic

Loud, banal, empty, frenzied, plasticized, flavorless, drab, violent in a bloodless way and sexy in a sexless way.

Peter Travers
is an American film critic, journalist and television presenter

In the department of numbing ineptitude, the pacing runs a neck-and-neck race with the dialogue.

Chris Stuckmann
is an American film critic, filmmaker, author

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is incredibly silly. So silly in fact, that you just have to respect it.

Rob Gonsalves
was a Canadian painter of magic realism surrealism

Even by video-game-movie standards, this is an arrogantly, almost smugly empty and incoherent mess.

Felix Vasquez Jr.
film critic

How do you have a pitch perfect actress play the role and then offer no rewards for fans that have been waiting for this for years?

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