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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: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 31

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
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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

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All Critics (157) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (127) | DVD (32)

[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
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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
Time Out
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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
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
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
Village Voice
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There is more tension in Jolie's T-shirts than in the dramatic action.

June 21, 2001
Hollywood Reporter
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Some great action sequences, but not much else.

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

So inferior as art and entertainment.

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

Stick to the games for true action, folks.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
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
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)
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
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
EmanuelLevy.Com

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 (1)
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
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
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)

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
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
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Audience Reviews for Lara Croft - Tomb Raider

As a video game adaptation Lara Croft - Tomb Raider works surprisingly well. Obviously this film is supposed to be approached as a pure popcorn fun and nothing more. If you are looking for logic or a story that would make that much sense then you are looking from a wrong place. Simon West's film is here to entertain people and when it comes to entertainment then i have to admit that this film was often an pleasant success.

Angeline Jolie is physically a perfect actor to play Lara Croft but there is something in his performance that is lacking a true charisma or humour. Jolie's main character ends up being a bit cold and distant as a hero. But overall she carries the film on her shoulders and most of the time she succeeds.

Some might find this film as a bit too noisy and too action packed, but i think that it is a nice combination of hi-tech action, old-fashioned adventure and a supernatural elements. Screenplay throws in everything from secret society illuminati to time-travel and life threatening monkey statues which comes alive. At times i did felt that in the writing department there was too many cooks in the kitchen. With more coherent storyline this could have been even something near great as an adventure film. It comes pretty damn close to be perfect entertainment but unfortunately it shoots in too many directions and cannot reach it's own ambition.

When it comes to production design, music or cinematography, Lara Croft - Tomb Raider, is an outstanding job. There are some gorgeous moments with nice addition of music in them. For example bands like Groove Armada, Nine Inch Nails and Chemical Brothers are used effectively here and the score by Graeme Revell is quite impressive mixture of different kind of musical styles and elements.

I think i was quite surprised that i liked this film as much as i did. I did not have that much expectations towards it when i went to see it and i was positively surprised. This is a good way to spend hour and a half and those who are looking for good adventure film will find it in this film. Recommended.
May 9, 2013
emilkakko

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Mindless plot-less action film for yours truly.
May 16, 2007
Raajay

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    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 (16 months ago)

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