Even if she refused the call she’d still be the Tomb Raider, because she finds his files in an office hidden inside his mausoleum. Of course it’s a puzzle that leads her to discover his secret double life and the mission he was on to find the hidden burial place of a Japanese goddess of death. All she has is what he taught her about puzzles and archery – the important shit. And we learn that this is sort of by her own stubborn choice – her famous rich guy father has been missing for seven years, and she refuses to give up on him, so she won’t sign the papers that would give her his vast business empire. She gets banned from the gym for unpaid dues, despite working hard as a bike messenger. This is not a Lara Croft that can spin around on a rope gracefully firing two machine guns, but it’s one who can grapple and take a beating and take a long time to tap out of a choke hold. Yeah, she’s skinny, but seeing her cheese grater abs, tense muscles, popping veins and ROCKY temerity changed my mind. We meet her in the ring at an MMA gym getting her ass handed to her. (Once again, I highly recommend that movie.)īut TOMB RAIDER turned me around in a matter of minutes by introducing Vikander’s Lara Croft just right. So when word on the movie was dire I gave up most of the hope that had been instilled in me by my admiration for director Roar Uthaug’s slasher movie COLD PREY and especially his viking-ish chase movie ESCAPE. She seemed too small and skinny and delicate for that to be believable. ![]() And Alicia Vikander, as much as I liked her in EX_MACHINA and THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., looked silly to me in the trailers, leaping off crumbling cliffs, getting tossed around and scraped up and still John McClaning her way out of the rubble. ![]() So I was skeptical when I saw that the new one was going for a “realistic” approach (partly based on a newer version of the video game). She has the talents and wits and acrobatic wire-fu skills to easily come out on top in any impossible situation, and that’s why it’s fun. I watched LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER and LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE each ten years after they came out, and very much enjoyed Angeline Jolie’s shamelessly larger-than-life super heroine who parachutes into people’s Jeeps while talking to them on the phone, punches and hitches rides on sharks to escape flooded ruins, rides motorcycles on the Great Wall of China, etc. It’s very much the opposite of what I liked about the previous movies based on this same video game series. You probly shouldn’t listen to me because I also kinda liked the new THE MUMMY, and this doesn’t have the benefit of cool monsters. Dominic West ( Money Monster, 300), Walton Goggins ( The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained) and Daniel Wu (AMC's Into the Badlands).I think this new TOMB RAIDER is kinda good. The film's production begins on the heels of the 20th anniversary of the wildly popular videogame franchise from Square Enix, Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal. The film stars Oscar winner Alicia Vikander ( Ex Machina, The Danish Girl) in the lead role, under the direction of Roar Uthaug ( The Wave), with Oscar-winner Graham King ( The Departed) producing under his GK Films banner. Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Tomb Raider is the story that will set a young and resolute Lara Croft on a path toward becoming a global hero. Production began on Tomb Raider back in January.įrom Warner Bros. If she survives this perilous adventure, it could be the making of her, earning her the name tomb raider. ![]() Suddenly, the stakes couldn't be higher for Lara, who, against the odds and armed with only her sharp mind, blind faith and inherently stubborn spirit, must learn to push herself beyond her limits as she journeys into the unknown. But her mission will not be an easy one just reaching the island will be extremely treacherous. Going explicitly against his final wishes, she leaves everything she knows behind in search of her dad's last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan.
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