Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (DVD)

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room Video games are very rarely adapted well to the screen: perhaps the lone example of a good one is Silent Hill, although admittedly I do find the first Resident Evil somewhat charming. For the most part, though, they don't do the medium any favours in trying to state that they can manage intelligently crafted narratives, for these films, and Tomb Raider in particular, manage to butcher the spirit of what made them so enjoyable in the first place. The film has a plot far more hackneyed and disinteresting than that of the game; it involves a planetary alignment that allows a group of nefarious ...  Read the complete review

Plot: Lara Croft is an adventurer who travels the world collecting ancient artifacts, she is fearless, skilled in unarmed combat, weapons and foreign languages and is a rich British aristocrat, anyway those are her credentials. The plot of this tale revolves around a secret society called the illuminate who seek a talisman giving its owner the ability to control time, they need it as a once in 5000 years alignment of the planets is taking place. To find the talisman they need a key, which they steal from Lara Croft, bad mistake guys as Ms Croft spends the rest of the film attempting to retrieve the key and destroy the talisman before the baddies get their ...  Read the complete review

The first thing I saw as I opened the plastic wrapper and then the box was the card inside with a picture of Angelina Jolie with a menacing look on her face. Makes her look like she means to do some business. This is a small four leave pamphlet about the dvd itself giving you info on the disk as well as some nice pics from the film itself. There was also as usual a leaflet containing further listings of other dvd films that have been released for you to buy if you are interested and a single page flyer style leaflet about the Lara Croft Tome Raider game Tomb Raider Chronicles. This is another in a long list of movies that has been produced over the last few ...  Read the complete review

Like the game, the movie of Tomb Raider is stunning, and the DVD is a great asset to my collection, having great extra’s and DVD ROM features, but most importantly its a really terrific film. ----------------------------------------------------------- The Introduction So I decided, finally - I bought a computer, (well I ordered one), and promptly went out and bought a game to play on it (for when it came, several weeks late, I might add), at the time Tomb Raider was all the rage, and Tomb Raider III was out, so I bought it, I didn’t have much of a clue what it was about, but still, there must of been something good about it. And ...  Read the complete review

Lara Croft is a action adventure film, released in 2001, and is the film based on the hit video game series Tomb Raider. The film is directed by Simon West and stars Angelina Jolie as the legendary Lara Croft. *Synopsis* Expolring lost empires, finding priceless artifacts, fighting deadly villians in mortal combat....it's all in a day's work for Treasure hunter and adventurer Lara Croft. She's up against a deadly secret from the late father's (Jolie's real dad Jon Voight) shady past: a legendary artifact called The Triangle of Light, with powers to alter space and time. Lara must find the Triangle before it falls into the hands of the Illuminati, a secet ...  Read the complete review