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LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER Send This Review to a Friend
What can one say about a film as moronic as "Lara Craft Tomb Raider"? A spin-off from the video game, this noisy but boring and stupid summer entry is a total waste of time. As anyone subjected to the steady advance hype knows, Angelina Jolie is Lara. She has heavy-duty weapons attached to her thighs as the woman of action but an empty-duty script to take her on her raiding adventures. In what passes for plot she must retrieve a powerful object that has the power to control time, but do so when the planets are exactly aligned or else there's be a 5000 year wait for another opportunity. The film itself seems to take 5000 years as Lara battles on and on and finally breaks the time barrier to meet her dead father (Jon Voight).
Directed by Simon West, the foolishness is loaded with busy but uninteresting special effects. Lara does battle with humans and robots alike, but there is little remotely human about this mentally robotic exercise. As Lara, Jolie is game, attractive and gets Jolie jollies out of smashing the opposition. That's about it. A Paramount Pictures release.
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