Jithin K Mohan So ludicrous that it's quite entertaining. The plotholes can be only matched by the stupidity of the characters. The use of music feels too confused just like the direction of the rest of the movie but can't deny that watching Angelina Jolie in The Matrix wannabe action with some crazy music was fun even though not even remotely convincing.

Laura dillon I don't know why the ratings for Jolies Tomb Raider movies are so low. The story may be a bit cheesy but so were the games. Angelina's performance as Lara is perfect. Love rewatching this from time to time. Fun movie. I think after the new adaption 2018 tomb raider movie maybe gamers and fans of Lara will appreciate Jolies Tomb Raider a lot more.

Fluke_Skywalker Plot; A thrill seeking, treasure hunting aristocrat finds herself up against the Illuminati in a race to rejoin two halves of a powerful ancient artifact... or something like that. To date (and excluding the soon to be released Tomb Raider reboot), the live action video game movie adaptation w/the highest Rotten Tomatoes score is 2010's Prince Of Persia w/%36. That's the bar. In short, Hollywood's attempts to bring your favorite video games to life have often been less than successful, w/only the Resident Evil franchise ever finding any sustained success w/a whopping six entries. Released in 2001 and w/a strong whiff of 90s b.o. clinging to its tight, sweat-soaked tank top, Tomb Raider was a modest hit and spawned a sequel, but w/a %20 RT score and a 5.8 rating on IMDb, it's not exactly considered a classic. That it's one of the more well regarded video game adaptations may say more about the genre than the movie itself. That said, it's always been a bit of a guilty pleasure for me (My two decade long crush on Ms. Jolie may play a small part in that). It has a couple of dizzyingly kinetic action scenes and a lean, tight pace that both help you to forget what absolute drivel the story is. Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft isn't a character of any perceptible depth w/her too cool for the room attitude keeping you at arm's length even during the film's laughable attempts at drama, but the actress gamely attacks the material (such as it is). Her Lara doesn't do anything half way, even savagely assaulting the act of taking a shower. I really can't imagine any of this working half as well w/any other actress. A few not-then-but-now familiar faces pop up in Daniel Craig (Bond. James Bond) and Iain Glen (Game of Thrones). The former fails to make much of an impression aside from his extremely dodgy and comically bad American accent, and the latter is your typical generic Euro-villain w/an ill defined plan to blah blah blah. My memory of the sequel is that it's pretty dreadful, and the trailers for the reboot look equally so. I guess for me that makes Lara Croft: Tomb Raider the franchise's gold standard. Wow.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" (2001)Here again an adaptation of an immensely successful video game, which has a skilled director Simon West, coming from a straight-down-to-business action movie "Con Air" (1997) starring Nicolas Cage and an suspenseful U.S. military thriller "The General's Daughter" (1999) starring John Travolta; yet the 115 Million Dollar budget, missed-placed somehow with mainly closed-up, no depth-of-field stage sets organized by producer Lawrence Gordon, eyeing fastball return-investments of estimated 275 Million Dollars at the international box office after Summer 2001, making the "Tomb Raider" adaptation still one of the most successful movies based on video games to this day.Actress Angelina Jolie, putting herself through serious mind-, body- and spiritual training periods, which pay off in her screen presence. Nevertheless she cannot save the 90 minutes final cut handed-in by editor Dallas Puett and three additional polish-up editors until there is nothing left of the movie but a shallow basin of well-executed action scenes, especially the one's at Lara Croft's English-countryside mansion, before the picture loses tension points and visual scope in highly expensive exterior shots taking in Iceland and Cambodia, which do not pay off, when further supporting characters as Lord Richard Croft, portrayed in less then 3 minutes screen-time by actor Jon Voight, without ever sharing a breathing beat with real-life daughter Angelina Jolie, and at that time of reception close-to-anonymous actor Daniel Craig as an deniable, unfulfilled love interest for the character of Lara Croft.At least nemesis character Manfred Powell, viciously and menace-spreading-looks striking performance by actor Iain Glen, is able to bring moments of suspense to the screen, when confronting a committee of Illuminati at a Venice, Italy cathedral, presenting that he will solve the mystery of an approaching once in 5000 years interstellar constellation in connection with a triangle relic in shape of the all-seeing eye in order to change time itself. The writings by Patrick Massett & John Zinman for shooting draft deliveries are solid enough that "Tomb Raider: Lara Croft" could have been a neo-classic adventure movie for the 21st century as "Raiders Of The Lost Arc" directed by Steven Spielberg for the 1980s and beyond. But the directorial vision by Simon West and hard-lining producer Lawrence Gordon fell flat throughout post-production with an heartless, unemotional editorial job and an even colder received soundtrack by composer Graeme Revell to mixing efforts by sound designer Steve Boeddeker.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)