Loud, banal, empty, frenzied, plasticized, flavorless, drab, violent in a bloodless way and sexy in a sexless way.
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06/25/01
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:7
Rotten:26
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Jun 15, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $129,512,407
Synopsis: Angelina Jolie stars as Lara Croft, a tough, sexy, heavily armed adventurer, in this action film based on the wildly popular video game series of the same name. When mercenaries invade her... [More]
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Reviews for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
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06/25/01
Top CriticIn the department of numbing ineptitude, the pacing runs a neck-and-neck race with the dialogue.
06/22/01
Top CriticSo pandering and pebble-brained you'd guess it had been test-screened on barnyard animals.
06/22/01
Top CriticThere is more tension in Jolie's T-shirts than in the dramatic action.
06/21/01
Top CriticTomb Raider's preoccupation with time is puzzling, given the movie's leisurely pace.
06/15/01
Top CriticThe herald of a cold, heartless, soul-dead cinema for a numbed audience with no interest in human emotion, just a craving to have its synapses jolted.
06/15/01
Top CriticHighly anticipated adaptation of the popular computer game is uneven, sometimes awkward, but Angelina Jolie makes the title character a virtual icon of female competence and coolth.
06/15/01
Top CriticA tedious bore that deserves early entombment.
06/15/01
Top CriticIts heavily mined narrative throws all sorts of ridiculous twists into the mix in order to put Croft through her punishing paces.
06/15/01
Top CriticIt's yet another movie where you frequently have no idea what's going on or why.
06/15/01
Top CriticThe movie credits five separate persons for the story and screenplay, a quintet of scribes who might better consider a career shift into acting -- they've clearly done a splendid job of impersonating monkeys at a typewriter.
06/15/01
Top CriticWhile Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is as cumbersome as most films in this subgenre, Angelina Jolie makes it watchable.
06/15/01
Top CriticOf all this summer's mindless blockbusters, this is arguably the most fun.
06/15/01
Top CriticHere is a movie so monumentally silly, yet so wondrous to look at, that only a churl could find fault.
06/15/01
Top CriticJolie gives Lara an upper class British accent, but it's so denatured that she sounds like one of those British techno-pop goddesses on a Valium drip.
06/14/01
Top CriticA movie for young boys and slightly older boys. For the rest of us, it's so inept it doesn't even provide an opportunity to ogle Angelina Jolie properly.
06/14/01
Top Critic'Time was stolen from us!' someone cries as they go chasing around fighting over the two halves of a mystical tablet that holds the key to the past and the future. Yup, I'd say 1 hour, 44 minutes, to be exact.
06/14/01
Top CriticAs much fun as watching someone else play a video game.
06/14/01
Top CriticSee summer films such as Tomb Raider, Swordfish and Pearl Harbor over and over again, as young people are wont to do, and your mind is liable to atrophy from lack of use.
06/14/01
Top CriticLatest News for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
May 27, 2009:
Tomb Raider Reboot Gets Real 
That "Tomb Raider" reboot we've been hearing about is still in development -- and producer Dan Lin says it'll take a "more realistic" approach than previous adaptations. More...
January 30, 2009:
Weekly Ketchup: Lara Croft, He-Man returning to theaters
This week, after spending some time in Utah hitting the slopes and pretending to care about independent filmmaking, Hollywood got right back in the groove, doing what they do... More...
January 28, 2009:
Warners Plans Tomb Raider Reboot
Following a round of rumors regarding Megan Fox taking over the role of Lara Croft, Warner Bros. has announced plans to reboot the "Tomb Raider" franchise with producer Dan Lin. More...
May 15, 2007:
Wait, What? "Point Break 2"? And Another "Tomb Raider"?
From the "sequels we're not dying for" department, we get a few tidbits regarding the possibility of A) "Tomb Raider 3" and B) "Point Break 2."... More...
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