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Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (2001)

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Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 155
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 126

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.

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Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 28

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.

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Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 484,547

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Movie Info

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

Nov 13, 2001

$129.5M

Paramount Pictures

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All Critics (156) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (127) | DVD (31)

[A] movie based on a video game that's unafraid to look absurd but lacks the self-conviction needed to come off as camp.

April 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Loud, banal, empty, frenzied, plasticized, flavorless, drab, violent in a bloodless way and sexy in a sexless way.

June 25, 2001 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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In the department of numbing ineptitude, the pacing runs a neck-and-neck race with the dialogue.

June 22, 2001 Comment
Rolling Stone
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So pandering and pebble-brained you'd guess it had been test-screened on barnyard animals.

June 22, 2001 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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There is more tension in Jolie's T-shirts than in the dramatic action.

June 21, 2001 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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[Jolie's] glittering, libidinous impudence gives this packaged piece of corporate schlock a strange integrity -- perhaps even a soul.

June 16, 2001 Full Review Source: Slate | Comment
Slate
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Some great action sequences, but not much else.

December 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

So inferior as art and entertainment.

April 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | Comment
Observer [UK]

Stick to the games for true action, folks.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Cinema Crazed

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

September 24, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

All the world can blow up around Lara Croft--and it does here--but who cares when there's no reason to fear for her life?

September 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | Comment
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

It might be easier to list the things that were good about Tomb Raider, but little comes to mind.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comment
Big Picture Big Sound

Displaying boobs, brawn, and brain (in that order), Angelina Jolie renders a splashy perfromance but the movie, which is like a video-game turned big-screen entertainment, is not good; another missed opportunity to have a femme-driven action-adventure

November 15, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

A jerky, fragmented tale that jumps from one exotic location to the next without any explanation or flow.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Worth watching.

September 30, 2005 Full Review Source: Three Movie Buffs | Comment (1)
Three Movie Buffs

This would have been a better action movie if the last 10 minutes were replaced. Any computer-game player knows the last battle is supposed to be the toughest.

September 17, 2003 Full Review | Comment
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Let's face it, people going to see this movie expect two things: Lots of action and lots of slo-mo shots of Jolie running.

August 1, 2003 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

You never get any explanation of who these people are or why they do what they do.

August 1, 2003 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | Comment
Hollywood.com

Jolie kept her side of the deal, everyone else owes her big time.

March 26, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | Comment

Like her gaming counterpart, she's all pretty eye candy without much of a soul or even an interesting personality.

March 20, 2003 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Ultimately, the film is set piece after set piece after set piece.... literally. One set at a time, one scene at a time.

January 7, 2003 Full Review Source: Hot Button | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Lara Croft - Tomb Raider

No one could fit into this role better than Angelina Jolie. Not only does it have a superbly selected cast, the action sequences are thrilling and best of all everything else in the movie distracts you entirely from the plot that although isnt that great is very, very imaginative.

November 25, 2011
Michael M.
Michael Miller

Super Reviewer

Not so entertaining. Some pretty bad effects...and a not so interesting plot. Almost a 3 star...close but no cigar.

January 21, 2011
TheGame90
Martin Sahlin

Super Reviewer

    1. Bryce: My ignorance amuses me... My ignorance amuses me?
    2. Lara Croft: Yes well I've always found your ignorance quite amusing.
    – Submitted by Nick S (34 days ago)

Latest News for Lara Croft - Tomb Raider

November 21, 2011:
Producer Graham King Talks Tomb Raider Reboot
He says it's more of a "character study" that will take Lara Croft back to her roots.

May 5, 2011:
Oscar-Nominated Writers Hired for Tomb Raider Reboot
Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, the screenwriters that helped bring you "Children of Men" and "Iron...

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