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It's not the most deep of performances, but considering the source material Jolie manages to capture the character's core appeal to a 'T' both in terms of personality and the action beats. Her British accent for Lara is serviceable but it is better than most Yankees imitating Brits. Simon West brings his visceral sense of style and intensity to the film that he brought to Con Air and that style is well complimented by the performance by Jolie as Croft who gives us a 'devil may care' protagonist who lives for sheer thrills and danger.

Tomb raider movie 2001 movie#

While critical reception tended to skew negative (with the exception of Roger Ebert) the movie received an 'okay' response from audiences, and while not anything mind blowing Lara Croft: Tomb Raider does capture the essence of adventure and silliness that endear the games and character to audiences. Despite this, the movie became the highest grossing movie based on a video game at the time as well as the highest grossing female fronted action film. De Souza rejected for one reason or another, and the casting of Angelina Jolie met with mixed responses among audiences.

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Now, she must retrieve the key and find and destroy the talisman before the Illuminati can get their hands on it.ĭevelopment on a Tomb Raider movie had begun in fits and starts through the late 90's with drafts by Mortal Kombat: Annihilation's Brent V. Manfred Powell (Iain Glen) and Lara's rival tomb raider Alex West (Daniel Craig) trying to stay one step ahead of Lara. Meanwhile, the Illuminati is also seeking the Pyramid of Light with Dr. Lara discovers the clock hides a special key that will lead whoever holds it to the lost artifact the Pyramid of Light which is said to have the ability to control the flow of time. Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie), a wealthy adventurer who seeks after lost artifacts for the sheer thrill of it finds a mysterious clock hidden in her family home that activates at the same time as an upcoming alignment of the nine planets. Today I'll be talking about the first two while I deal with the more modern Tomb Raider tomorrow but let's dress up to the occasion and load our guns and sharpen our blades, this is Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Lara Croft's popularity remains strong to this day with the character's unique look recognized even outside the gaming community and serving as the cornerstone of a franchise that encompasses not only the games, but also comics, action figures, a cartoon, and two movies starring Oscar winning actress Angelina Jolie, and one more with Oscar winning actress Alicia Vikander.

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Of particular novelty for the series was in its central character Lara Croft who originally intended as a male character was changed as to not invite comparisons to Indiana Jones. The video game franchise Tomb Raider started in 1996 with the game that was developed by Toby Gard and Core Design became one of the defining video game franchises of the 3D era of video games with the series laying the foundation for other third person platforming games with influences seen even to this day with the likes of the Uncharted franchise. It should be no surprise that 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is based of the original Tomb Raider game trilogy and has been called one of the few good video game adaptations prior to both Sonic the Hedgehog and The Super Mario Bros animated movie, and some people thought that the only thing that was good in it was Angelina Jolie as the titular Tomb Raider. But with Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, it makes it worthwhile.