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Still, origin stories are generally the least interesting part of a brand-new franchise, and Tomb Raider does a good enough job with Lara’s formative years that I’m eager to see what happens next.
TOMBRAIDER EBOOT MOVIE
Tomb Raider is the kind of action movie I’ve been missing: visceral and thrilling and silly, with a well-chosen cast that manages to elevate most of the dumber flourishes (with the exception, I’m sorry to say, of Lara’s father’s annoying habit of calling her "Sprout" all the time).
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You probably just wrote the ending to Tomb Raider.)īut this is one of those times when the whole of a movie ends up being greater than the sum of its parts. It’s overloaded with clunky expository dialogue, too-obvious twists, and a climax that plays out exactly how you’d imagine.
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It’s all ludicrous-but the right kind of ludicrous, and Vikander’s dirt-and-blood-stained performance keeps the whole thing grounded enough to have relatable human stakes. It all leads, inevitably, to the tomb itself, which is straight out of the Indiana Jones playbook: deadly traps, tricky mechanical puzzles, and a "prize" of dubious value at the center of it all. Lara isn’t willing to accept that he’s gone, and when she stumbles onto a cache of documents that reveals his final mission-a trek to an uncharted island in the Devil’s Triangle, just off the coast of Japan-she decides to follow his trail. The catch? She can only collect her inheritance if she’s willing to sign a document certifying the death of her father (Dominic West), who mysteriously disappeared seven years before the film began. Lara is the sole heir to the Croft fortune, which includes a dizzying portfolio of successful companies and a massive mansion. Lara is poor enough to steal an apple from her trainer, but her empty wallet turns out to be by her own choice. It’s a not very subtle hint at the type of grit that will eventually turn Lara into the kind of action heroine audiences might be expecting-but damn, does she endure a lot of struggle on the way. We first meet this Lara in a boxing gym, staying in a headlock past anyone’s reasonable expectations before she finally agrees to tap out. The new Tomb Raider reboot works overtime to introduce audiences to a different kind of Lara Croft, played by Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander as a kind of tomb raider-in-training. But non-gamers might still have an outdated image of Lara Croft in their minds: A video game company’s collective take on the ultimate sexy badass-so preposterously buxom that Angelina Jolie was asked to pad out her bust line before she could star in 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. It’s been five years since the video-game reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise, which reimagined Lara Croft as a younger, less experienced, and deliberately desexualized action heroine.