Tomb Raider is based off of the video game this particular movie version which follows the 2 films that Angelina Jolie made in 2001 and 2003 is a reboot much like the 2013 game of the same name was a reboot this time Alicia Vikander plays Lara Croft a young woman directionless after her fathers disappearance but when her company faces liquidation she goes back to his old house and discovers his old notes about an ancient Japanese Empress who if released could potentially spell disaster for the world.
This new Tomb Raider is sadly very very forgettable but that is not in any way due to Alicia Vikander’s performance she gives this role 115% of her time and every time she’s on screen you connect with her and want her to get to that island and find her father and solve the mystery it also helps that she equips herself very well with the action scenes bringing a real grit and determination to everyone of them that reminds me a little bit of Jennifer Lawrence in the Hunger Games series.
Sadly however the rest of the movie is not giving that same commitment and this movie has 2 huge problems going for it:
- Firstly the storytelling here is really really bland and at times I thought I was watching a bad ripoff of the true finale of the Indiana Jones series the Last Crusade with the missing father, the book (“I schould’ve mailed to the Marxsche Brothersche” I said to myself at one point) the traps all of it and well they chose…
Poorly
- And secondly the villains here are so bland and generic they may as well have been bought off a smegging rack at a bargain basement they have no personality, nothing memorable about them and are just there because well its an adventure film and we need to have some bad people run around in it which leads me to Mr Walton Goggins now you may remember him from such films as the Hateful Eight where he was pretty good but here completely flat.
And its not just him, Kristin Scott Thomas one of our greatest actresses is wasted in a nothing role and Nick Frost someone I love basically just does a 2 scene role can we please find better roles for these people Alicia gave this project her all why couldn’t everybody else.
And so that was Tomb Raider and frankly it’s a big disappointment as I really had hoped that THIS would be the one film to break the mould of well shit video game movies but alas its just another one on the pile, 2 out of 5.
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