To'kun Review of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

Mostly Fan Appreciation than story focussed.

[16 June 2001]

Being a Red Dwarf fan, I went to see the movie because of Chris

Barrie, not Angelina Jolie. I'm very glad he had a reasonable

amount of screen time than to have him in the background all the

time, with no speaking role.

I have played the first two videogames of Tomb Raider and the

movie does live up to what most fan-boys want, lots of shots with

Lara Croft, her bosum, her legs, and etc. while doing those funky

acrobatic jumps and Tomb Raider videogame style action. The

movie does a great job in making Lara do stuff that is not possible

in the videogame.

As for the rest of the movie, interesting idea. The story should

have focussed more on the mystery of the Illumanati (yet another

reason I wanted to see this movie) than Lara. There were shades

of archeological adventure and an attempt to pay tribute to a

famous scene in Golden Voyage of Sindbad with the multi-armed

Kali-wannabe, but its very weak in comparison. Lost is the

excitement and creepiness that the original Golden Voyage fight

scene had. The finale was even poor, but I won't give away details

on what happens there.

If I had to choose between Mummy Returns and Tomb Raider for

archeological adventure and nonstop action, I prefer Mummy

Returns more.