![]() ![]() His evil employers don’t even give him vacation days so he and his mercenary buddies have been spending all their time blowing up parts of the island in the futile hope of stumbling upon the tomb, you could almost say they’d “Use a bulldozer to find a china cup.” Now we all know that Lara Croft is very much cut from the same cloth as a certain globetrotting adventurer but in this movie, the plot similarities to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade are a little too on the nose. When they reach the island Lara runs into the villainous Mathias Vogel ( Walton Goggins) who works for Trinity and apparently murdered both Lara’s as well as Ren’s father and for seven years Vogel has been stuck on this island because without Richard Croft’s notes he has been unable to find the tomb of Himiko. “You’re a Croft, can’t you afford a seaplane or a helicopter?” ![]() Lara, of course, doesn’t destroy the notes but instead takes her father’s diary to China where she will team up with Lu Ren ( Daniel Wu), the son of the sea captain who also disappeared seven years ago with her father, and the two of them will take the same ill-fated trip to a mysterious island located in the dangerous waters of the Devil’s Sea to hopefully find their lost parents. In a video message left for Lara, our good Lord Croft tells his daughter to destroy all his research notes so that an evil militant organization known as Trinity cannot get their global conquering mitts on them. Not to get into too much spoiler territory but basically, Lara discovers a secret room that contains all her father’s research about Himiko, the mythical Queen of Yamatai, who he believed would, if ever released, could very well end life on Earth. If we are to believe that the whole thing is about Lara not taking the money because she refuses to believe her father is dead, well that is simply moronic, and it gives her a character trait less believable than her ability to survive leaps from raging rapids and rusted out WWII bombers.Īlicia Vikander is quite good as the spunky and courageous Lara Croft, and she sells the hell out of the action set-pieces, but sadly the plot they stick her with isn’t only weak but also not all that original. Even if Lord Richard Croft ( Dominic West) wasn’t able to be declared legally dead there would surely be money set aside in some kind of trust to take care of his daughter. Lara Croft is Premium Rush.įor me penniless Lara Croft was a thing the film needed a little more time explaining as it simply makes no sense that sole the heir to a billion dollar company, with holdings that span the globe, somehow can’t afford her gym membership. But hold on, isn’t Lara Croft supposed to be stupidly wealthy? Well apparently Lara Croft ( Alicia Vikander) refuses to acknowledge that her father is dead, he went missing seven years on some secret mission to investigate the tomb of a supposedly powerful and mythical Chinese Queen, and because she won’t sign the “Death in Absentia ” papers she lives practically the life of a street urchin. ![]() Now in 2018 director Roar Uthaug takes that same aesthetic for his reboot of the Tomb Raider movie franchise no longer is Lara Croft sparring with robots within the bowels of Croft Manor, now she’s practicing mix martial arts in a city gym ( a place that she can barely afford to pay her membership fees), and working as a bike messenger/delivery girl. In 2013 the video game company Square Enix rebooted the Tomb Raider game with a darker tone than what could be found in previous entries in the series, one that kind of works as a prequel to the strong self-assured Lara Croft we’ve all come to know and love. Video game adaptations have always been a dodgy prospect, who can forget Van Damme’s Streetfighter or the horrible Mario Brothers movie (no matter how hard we try), but transforming the Tomb Raider game into a movie always seemed like an easy prospect to me, it’s basically sexy Indiana Jones so how can you screw that up? Well with three movies featuring the amazing Lara Croft it’s apparent that even with what looks to be a sure-fire premise there is still the ability to drop the ball.
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