Lara Croft - Tomb Raider/Aeon Flux (DVD)

Advantages: Good action shots, Angelina Jolie
Disadvantages: Poor Story

...Lara Croft has made the transfer from computer generated heart throb in the tomb raider games series to a star on the big screen in the form of Angelina Jolie in the smash film of the same name – ‘Tomb Raider’. The film starts with a bang, seeing our heroine Lara face to face with a monster robot in an ancient ruin fighting for her life, guns blazing and some very nice moves. However it is all a mock, mere practice and relaxation for Lara Croft, but it fooled me into thinking it was real. The real plot is Lara Croft is the daughter of the famous explorer Lord Croft, (Jon Voight) who was tragically lost or missing from one of his trips. Lara, (Angelina Jolie) has inherited her fathers’ sense of action and adventure herself, and finds her biggest challenge yet as she is out to protect the world from evil as... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: good special effects
Disadvantages: none

...Lara Croft-Tomb Raider, this film was based on the british computer game and now it's a big film. I was put off seeing this film after reading the reviews in magazines, saying it was quite tacky and had no real storyline, so I thought I would go and see it myself. I went to see the film and completely disagree with the film reviewers, Angelina Jolie was brilliant at the part of Lara Croft. The film did have a storyline it was about Lara have founding a clock that could change time, but she needed to find two parts of the triangle to stop it for good so that noone oculd take over and have so much power. I think the special effects in this film were really good and it should get some praise fot it.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Action packed, great effects, visually impresive.
Disadvantages: some dodgy acting and dialogue

...A special effects laden jamboree of mythical skullduggery, ancient contraption-creating geniuses and the end of time and space as we know it if the evil bad guy gets his hands on it. A cross between Indy Jones and The Mummy. Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) is the Tomb Raider - a beautiful, adventurous, adrenalin gobbling junkie - very clever, very rich and very handy with a pair of pistols. Now I have never played the game so I don't know if that is a good thing or not. I certainly can't compare the two so I can only comment on the film as I saw it (ie, no background knowledge of Lara, her skills, her foes, her friends etc). The story is simple if a bit preposterous. Maybe good for a game but for a film, even a film of this sort, it's always better to base it on some sort of reality, like a maybe this is possible type of thing... Read review

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