![]() Still, origin stories are generally the least interesting part of a brand-new franchise, and Tomb Raider does a good enough job with Lara’s formative years that I’m eager to see what happens next. Tomb Raider is the kind of action movie I’ve been missing: visceral and thrilling and silly, with a well-chosen cast that manages to elevate most of the dumber flourishes (with the exception, I’m sorry to say, of Lara’s father’s annoying habit of calling her "Sprout" all the time). You probably just wrote the ending to Tomb Raider.)īut this is one of those times when the whole of a movie ends up being greater than the sum of its parts. ![]() It’s overloaded with clunky expository dialogue, too-obvious twists, and a climax that plays out exactly how you’d imagine. It’s all ludicrous-but the right kind of ludicrous, and Vikander’s dirt-and-blood-stained performance keeps the whole thing grounded enough to have relatable human stakes. It all leads, inevitably, to the tomb itself, which is straight out of the Indiana Jones playbook: deadly traps, tricky mechanical puzzles, and a "prize" of dubious value at the center of it all. Lara isn’t willing to accept that he’s gone, and when she stumbles onto a cache of documents that reveals his final mission-a trek to an uncharted island in the Devil’s Triangle, just off the coast of Japan-she decides to follow his trail. The catch? She can only collect her inheritance if she’s willing to sign a document certifying the death of her father (Dominic West), who mysteriously disappeared seven years before the film began. Lara is the sole heir to the Croft fortune, which includes a dizzying portfolio of successful companies and a massive mansion. Lara is poor enough to steal an apple from her trainer, but her empty wallet turns out to be by her own choice. It’s a not very subtle hint at the type of grit that will eventually turn Lara into the kind of action heroine audiences might be expecting-but damn, does she endure a lot of struggle on the way. We first meet this Lara in a boxing gym, staying in a headlock past anyone’s reasonable expectations before she finally agrees to tap out. ![]() The new Tomb Raider reboot works overtime to introduce audiences to a different kind of Lara Croft, played by Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander as a kind of tomb raider-in-training. But non-gamers might still have an outdated image of Lara Croft in their minds: A video game company’s collective take on the ultimate sexy badass-so preposterously buxom that Angelina Jolie was asked to pad out her bust line before she could star in 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. It’s been five years since the video-game reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise, which reimagined Lara Croft as a younger, less experienced, and deliberately desexualized action heroine.
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