Angelina Jolie:Tomb Raider (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (DVD))

Member Name: lvg23

Product:	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (DVD)
Date:	20/09/09 (14 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Jolie is on fine acting form here

Disadvantages: plot boring, characters dull

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 society hell bent on world domination. Can Lara stop them in time and protect the mysterious Triangle......?

*My Opinon*
Overall a decent film. The cast superb; Jolie, Voight and Brit 007 Daniel Craig sparkle in this film adaptation of the hit video game that whilst being a critical failure was a box office sucess. The special effects fantastic and the fight scenes well cherographed.

However, the real reason that this was a success was Angelina Jolie. Her performance has to be ranked as one of her finest as she gives a throughly commited perfromance to a largley physically challenging (not to mention draining) role. She doesn't just impersonate Lara Croft is IS Lara Croft. She of course then becomes the epitome of every teenage boys lust filled fantasy and her dedication to doing all the stunt work herself and making sue she speaks in a plum british accent (terribly tough to do for an American i heard) just shows what a good actress, especially in the action or adventure movies, Jolie is.

It's just a shame that the film couldn't serve the much loved video game series and the deadicated Jolie any better than it did. The plot- nothing we haven't seen before, the supporting cast-one dimensional and the mysterious artifact-dull and boring. What could have been a great film, with the fablous Jolie at the lead, became a shadow of the video game series and a mere copy of pevious video game-film adaptations, BORING.

Amazon: from 1.48
Length:96 mins
Rating:12

Summary: a good film overall