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[A] movie based on a video game that's unafraid to look absurd but lacks the self-conviction needed to come off as camp.
Loud, banal, empty, frenzied, plasticized, flavorless, drab, violent in a bloodless way and sexy in a sexless way.
In the department of numbing ineptitude, the pacing runs a neck-and-neck race with the dialogue.
So pandering and pebble-brained you'd guess it had been test-screened on barnyard animals.
There is more tension in Jolie's T-shirts than in the dramatic action.
[Jolie's] glittering, libidinous impudence gives this packaged piece of corporate schlock a strange integrity -- perhaps even a soul.
Some great action sequences, but not much else.
So inferior as art and entertainment.
Stick to the games for true action, folks.
Even by video-game-movie standards, this is an arrogantly, almost smugly empty and incoherent mess.
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?
It might be easier to list the things that were good about Tomb Raider, but little comes to mind.
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
A jerky, fragmented tale that jumps from one exotic location to the next without any explanation or flow.
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.
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.
You never get any explanation of who these people are or why they do what they do.
Jolie kept her side of the deal, everyone else owes her big time.
Like her gaming counterpart, she's all pretty eye candy without much of a soul or even an interesting personality.
Ultimately, the film is set piece after set piece after set piece.... literally. One set at a time, one scene at a time.
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