Lara Croft Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003)
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 165
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 125
Though the sequel is an improvement over the first movie, it's still lacking in thrills.
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 32
Though the sequel is an improvement over the first movie, it's still lacking in thrills.
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This sequel to the 2001 hit video-game adaptation Lara Croft: Tomb Raider finds Jan de Bont stepping in for director Simon West, helming his first feature since 1999's The Haunting. From a script by first-time scribe Dean Georgaris, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life finds Angelina Jolie once again portraying the titular curvaceous adventurer. But where the first film saw Croft in a race against the Illuminati to acquire an elusive relic that offers control over life and death, this
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Cast
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Angelina Jolie
Lara Croft -
Gerard Butler
Terry Sheridan -
Ciarán Hinds
Jonathan Reiss -
Chris Barrie
Hillary -
Noah Taylor
Bryce -
Djimon Hounsou
Kosa -
Til Schweiger
Sean -
Simon Yam
Chen Lo -
Terence Yin
Xien -
Daniel Caltagirone
Nicholas Petraki -
Fabiano Martell
Jimmy Petraki -
Jonathan Coyne
Gus Petraki -
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The less welcome news is that most of the same shortcomings that cramped the first installment are still dogging the sequel, which delivers on action but dawdles through downtime.
This Indiana Jones knockoff goes down smoothly enough, and Jolie isn't bad at all.
The tepidly anticipated return of the videogame vixen belly-flopped on its US release, and it did so with a splat that could drown out several summer blockbusters' worth of car-crunch and detonations.
Top CriticScenery can't save this blindingly dull sequel.
Jolie remains more magazine cover than actress (or movie star), and the franchise she supports is more Nintendo after-school time killer than rousing adventure cycle.
Silly, cheesy and tacky.
Better than the first, but not by much.
It's all a confection, but the plot is tight, Jolie is hot, and I'll probably see the next one, too.
It's clunky, lifeless, murky, and worst of all incredibly boring.
Jan de Bont's direction is also disappointing, and while Angelina Jolie continues to be an eye catching female superhero, she will only do it for the most undemanding audiences this time.
Jan De Bont seems to have lost the ability to intelligently direct an action scene.
Curiously fun-free, drab and ho-hum.
If you're a fan of hers you'll be able to find some enjoyment in this movie, but not as much as she seems to be having while making them.
It seems the refreshing originality that breathed life into the first film is still trying to catch its breath.
Better than its predecessor--and, yes, that's every bit the backhanded compliment it sounds like.
... true to the look and spirit of the game and ... more fun than watching someone else play 'Tomb Raider,' which was the bane of the first Lara Croft installment.
The new Lara Croft has no reason to exist except that the first one made money.
There remains the essential truth (and Tomb Raider 2's fiscal failure speaks to this) that even without analysis, there needs to be some meat on the bone.
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