Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle Of Life

  Plot Summary

Lady Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie), the Tomb Raider, is back.  While diving close to the coast of Greece, she finds a lost temple where Alexander the Great stored his most precious treasures. The most valuable piece is an illuminating orb, which is a map to Pandora's Box. Mercenaries snatch the orb from her as the temple is collapsing. They intend to sell it to Jonathan Reiss (Ciaran Hinds), who will use it to find Pandora's Box and kill millions of people. M16 seek her help and she teams up with an old boyfriend in order to regain the orb and prevent Jonathan Reiss from finding Pandora's Box...

Review

Lara Croft takes us on an international adventure to save the world. We get taken to beautiful locations in Asia and Africa. We get to hang out at Croft Mansion in England with Lara, her personal butler (Chris Barrie) and her personal computer guru (Noah Taylor) and enjoy some of the pleasures of such wealth.

The adventures are akin to Indiana Jones. The high tech gadgets and modes of transport and the arrogance of Lara Croft's character are akin to James Bond.

This film is fantasy so don't expect reality here. Remember this is a film based on a computer game. If you enjoyed Lara Croft: Tomb Raider then all the ingredients of that film can be found again in this film with a little more of the incredible and a little more of a love interest that goes by the name of Terry Sheridan (Gerald Butler).

Angelina Jolie is strikingly attractive and carries herself beautifully as Lara Croft.  Her outfits are cool and sexy, as we would expect.

This film has got a lot of poor reviews. The script is weak and the film could be vastly improved with some more original lines. But I say chill out and enjoy the show. No need to be jealous just because it is a rich, attractive, cocky female lead character that gets to go on all the cool adventures and show off a lot! The boys have been doing it for years, now it's the girls' turn to have fun and leave the boys to be the sidekicks!  I say bring on more female action heroes.

Bottom Line: Fun fantasy adventure movie that's well worth watching.

Reviewed by Niamh Fox, Premier Movie Reviews 2003

Genre: Action/adventure, special effects.

Certificate: 12's

Director: Jan De Bont

~ Main Cast ~

Angelina Jolie

Ciaran Hinds

Gerard Butler

Noah Taylor

Chris Barrie

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