Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (DVD)

...game series, featuring pneumatic cyber-babe Lara Croft. Having never played any of the games, I can’t comment on their plots, but, as far as I can tell, it involves and improbably-proportioned woman running, jumping and shooting her way around various ancient tombs and temples. Obviously, the film version wasn’t going to be Hamlet. What we have instead is a decent action movie with a rather pretty protagonist (the wonderful Angelina ...
...the ability to control time. Lara wants to use this power to save her father, who was killed sixteen years ago, whereas the Illuminati (big bad guy conspiracy), want to use the power to take over the world or something (their motivation never seems to develop beyond “power for powers sake”). The plot, however, is just a backdrop for a series of stunts and breath-taking set pieces. Unlike “The Mummy Returns”, “Tomb Raider” ...

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...The Plot ----------- Lady Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) lives is a huge villa in London and tries to get out of her boredom. She fights against roboters, to train her skills with pistols and fists, she raves with much speed over the Tower Bridge… One night she finds an old clock, hidden in a secret chamber of her villa. Her father (who died years before and who she misses very much) left it there. This clock starts ticking when a special planet ...
...They steal the clock from Lara and the action begins… These people, a secret society, called The Illuminates, want to get the power over time. But Lara is to good in solving mistery problems, so their henchman, Mr Powell (Ian Glenn), thinks it would be better to cooperate with her: he offers her, to bring back her father, if she helps him to find the triangle. Will Lara do this? What I think about it ------------------------ This film came ...

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...Obviously, many will say that Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) provides a performance that will please any man, and her great English accent deserves a mention, but the desperately predictable and dry script does her no justice. However, please note that Lara's Assistant, played by Chris Barrie (Rimmer from Red Dwarf), also deserves a mention for his great performance. Yes, this is a very predictable film, but nevertheless, if you like sheer action, ...

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...culminating in an eclipse. lady lara Croft, rich English heiress discoveres a weird clock in her house. She shows it to an old friend of her father's, he sends her to see a very sinister man, then the clock is stolen. Lara learns that the clock is a key to putting together an ancient artifact with amazinhg powers. There are some who want this artifact for evil purposes. Lara has to get it first. Cue some temples, some strange traps and monsters, ...
...some lovely visual sequences - lara on bunjee ropes in her hall is amazing - quite an arty scene that breaks into some of the best action in the film. Things I would have done had I been writing it: More humour - Indianna Jones and James Bond thrive on this, Lara could have used a few laughs. More sexual tension - they started but it never really got sparks flying. Some more subplot, any subplot. An extra half an hour of film to slow down the search ...

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...charms of the leading lady, Lara Croft, played with great athleticism by Angelina Jolie, who also bravely employs an English accent that veers dangerously close to Mockney before settling down at a girls' public school somewhere in the Home Counties. Lady Croft lives in a huge pile somewhere in southern England, accompanied only by her butler, Hillary and her techno wizard, Bryce. Chris Barrie plays the role of the butler to perfection, stiff upper ...
...intelligent and hostile robots for Lara to hone her skills against. Why? Not sure really, he's just there. And his favourite robot, Simon, bears more than a passing resemblance to ED-209, the unsung hero of 'Robocop'. There seems to be a pattern forming here... Now for the plot, such as it is - the alignment of all the planets in the solar system occurs just once every 5000 years, and it just so happens that the anniversary of her father's death ...

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...really enjoyed that apple"? Lara Croft: Tomb Raider has several pips. The computer game to movie genre is like bobbing for apples: rarely successful and a bit frustrating. But with the occasional promise of appley goodness... I'm dropping the apple metaphor before I make a joke about Core Design* - oh, too late. Without going into mentions of all the other unsuccessful genre attempts , let's just look at this one. ...
...geek. One day, little Lara (having lived in this big mansion all her life, remember) hears a tick-tocking clock, smashes down a wall and finds a mysterious artifact belonging to her dead father, who is enjoying a beyond-the-grave relationship with Lara. The object is linked to a group of nasty important men (you can tell they're important because they sit on chairs in a row), who want to control time. Lara wants to see her dad (Jon Voight) again. ...

peppersinclaire 10.07.2001 (11.04.2004) · Read full review
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...plot sees Angelina Jolie aka Lara Croft, as an orphaned and very rich archeologist. She discovers a clock that belonged to her father in the under -stair cupboard( where else?) and sets about trying to unlock its secrets. Meanwhile an evil group called the Illuminati(silly name) plan to acquire the pieces of a mystical triangle which can only be located by the clock that Lara has, once they have this triangle they will control time and will be able ...
...lives happily ever after. Lara is helped by her butler Hillary (Chris Barrie) and her handiman whose name I forgot. She is pitted against a semi evil bad guy who really doesn’t do anything bad during the film, although he apparently killed her father (whatever). The other bad guy, Alex West turns good guy at the end of the film providing the love interest. The film cant be faulted for special effects which are incredible including a stone ...

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...from the woman who loves Lara Croft. Don't believe me? Go to www.clik.to/lcchronicles and see for yourself. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was the film I'd been waiting for since the first game was launched in 1996. When I finally got round to seeing it I was not dissapointed, but being a die hard fan my view was that this film could do no wrong. But you know how it goes, any successful game usually dives when the transition is made from small screen ...
...allignment to gain ultimate power. Lara in her true Tomb Raider style has to stop them before they get their hands on it, knowing the concequences. The special effects and huge manmade sets were amazingly detailed and beautiful. Parts of the movie were filmed in Iceland and Cambodia, bringing much needed revenue to the country. The star, Angelina Jolie, accepted the role as a challenge and spent three months in training for the part. She trained ...

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...step sister, who dotes on Lara Croft and owns every game, stated to me she would not be seeing it because Angeline Jolie was too 'ugly' to play her beloved Lara. Is it just me, or is Lara C already pretty ugly? A mass of hideously deformed out of proportion polygons that jut out where they really shouldn't? Or is that just me getting a touch of green eyed monster? Anyway, this is what I said to her. 'Angeline Jolie was the ONLY thing that made this ...
...working for some sect and Lara is told by her father(via a letter- he's already dead y'see) has to stop these people from getting the clock. But this sect aren't even scary or even sinister. We are never informed why they won't the clock(it controls time by the way) except to fulfill some sacred pact. For all Lara knows they might want to do something good. But do we ever find out? No? Even more stupidly, all that Lara really had to do was smash ...

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...writer/directer, as the main character, Lara Croft, comes with a full history and personality, and under-takes activites (Tomb Raiding) which should lend itself to exciting film-making. Unfortunately, they had butter fingers and dropped the ball on this one. It can never be a good sign when we have three credits for story, two for the screenplay and a further credit for adaptation(?). So what did this formidable team of six manage by way of plot? ...
...silly set piece with Lara (Angelina Jolie) encountering a robotic foe whilst "raiding" an egyptian tomb, which turns out to be a training simulation set within her mansion, Purlease. She shares this mansion with her snooty butler (Chris Barrie) and, for some reason, a computer geek. Mourning her dead father (Jon Voight), who died in 1985, she is inspired by a dream to find a clock within a secret room in the mansion which contains a strange clock-like ...

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Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) is a rich, English archaeologist with combat skills to rival the best, despite her wealth she is all about helping other people and has always longed for a Father figure in her life because her Father, Lord Richard Croft (Jon Voight) was killed when she was young, since then she has had to grow up on her own and now lives in the family mansion with her butler and technical expert Bryce (Noah Taylor) who often sets Lara ...
...a special day for Lara and numerous other archaeologists, it’s the first day of a planetary alignment which results in an eclipse on the Earth. This event only happens every 5000 years so Lara is keen to get in on the action. After a dream about her Father in which he informs her of a key regarding the planetary alignment, Lara figures out that a secret key has been hidden somewhere. This key must be put in place by the final stage of the alignment ...

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...plays the title role of Lara Croft and from the interviews I have seen and read worked exceptionally hard to learn all the skills necessary for playing this role. To maintain her energy levels for all the stunts that she does in the film she gave up smoking and completely changed her diet. She also learnt the core principles of kickboxing. However moving on to the plot; millenia ago a meteorite fell to earth at the exact moment in time that all nine ...
...The good guys: Lara Croft: The role is well played by Angelina Jolie and fully exudes everything that made the character famous in the first place. The majority of the action scenes are well carried out and very much in keeping with what you visualise your heroine experiencing. The combat scenes although good could have been thought out a little more carefully or perhaps the storyboarding altered but this did not take anything away from the actual ...

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...derisible Mortal Kombat and establish Lara Croft as the 21st Century's answer to Indiana Jones? Sadly, and with much regret, the only truthful answer is no. Certainly Tomb Raider does not sink to the depths that its video game predecessors did but nor does it rise above mediocrity. For those unaware of the history of Tomb Raider it was first released as a computer game back in 1996 and has since been subject to several reincarnations to become one ...
...endowed, gun toting, all-action girl Lara Croft who fights her way around the world clad in a variety of tight-fitting outfits, essentially she is the ultimate computer nerd's fantasy. The casting of Angelina Jolie as the heroine was an inspired move and with her well documented extensive training prior to filming she looks as fit and mean as such a character should. Impressively she also nails the upper class English accent that the character, a ...

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...worried. I saw someone portraying Lara Croft on TV once, and a bad (not to mention very embarrassing) job she was doing too, she looked terrible, and if the movie portrayed her that way I’d be cringing all the way through the film. When I heard that an American was to play Lara I was even more put off, the bad English accents that fly around Hollywood are something I’m sure your all aware of. So when I got to the cinema that day I was ...
...being more British sounding), and Lara Croft was born. The game was released in 1996 and was a great success, the idea is that you play Lara Croft, you explore tombs, solve puzzles, defeat the baddies, travel the world, making your way through various levels until you reach the end - alive, hopefully, and win the day. So far there have been five games for the PC/playstation, a gameboy version and a sixth PC/playstation instalment is on the way. ...

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...alignment would you believe! Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) is an English woman who lives in the mansion inherited from her late father, Lord Croft (Jon Voight [Angelina’s father in real life!]). Plenty of cash and her father’s training has brought Lara up to be a Tomb Raider, that is she raids tombs in search of treasure…much like Indiana Jones. Except with guns, more attitude and bigger breasts (by the way, Angelina is not that ...
...(creepy!) and on this date, Lara hears a ticking noise. Upon searching she discovers the All Seeing Eye which her Father had spoken of when she was a child. After more clues she discovers the truth about the Triangles and so forth and sets of to retrieve the pieces and destroy them, as were her Father’s wishes. Thing is a secret sect known as The Illuminati are also on the hunt for the Triangle, they wish to harness the power and rule as a ...

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