Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Alicia Vikander | ... | Lara Croft | |
Dominic West | ... | Richard Croft | |
Walton Goggins | ... | Mathias Vogel | |
Daniel Wu | ... | Lu Ren | |
Kristin Scott Thomas | ... | Ana Miller | |
Derek Jacobi | ... | Mr. Yaffe | |
Alexandre Willaume | ... | Lieutenant | |
Tamer Burjaq | ... | Mercenary | |
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Adrian Collins | ... | Mercenary |
Keenan Arrison | ... | Mercenary | |
Andrian Mazive | ... | Mercenary | |
Milton Schorr | ... | Mercenary | |
Hannah John-Kamen | ... | Sophie | |
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Peter Waison | ... | Taxi Driver |
Samuel Mak | ... | Chinese Kid |
Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) is the fiercely independent daughter of eccentric adventurer Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West), who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of twenty-one without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father's global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he's truly gone. Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can't understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his mysterious death. Going explicitly against his final wishes, she leaves everything she knows behind in search of her dad's last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. But her mission will not be an easy one; just reaching the island will... Written by Warner Bros. Pictures
Overall this is your average action movie.
But, Alicia Vikander on the other hand is an amazing action star; what a revelation! I love it when Hollywood casts an actor like Alicia in an action role who has the physique/physicality, can believably pull off the action role and perform parts or most of the stunts like running/fighting which results in seamless action scenes between star and stunt double so there's no need for shaky cam or SFX (unlike scarlet johanssen's lame natasha romanoff/BW). Also some of the action sequences are very much like in the video game.