Lara Croft Tomb Raider

Year of release : 2001

 

Run time : 1h41min

 

Genre : Adventure

 

Cast : Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Iain Glenn, Jon Voight

 

 

The movie is based on the video game franchise Tomb Raider first released in 1996.

 

The movie starts with an action scene in which Lara is fighting a training robot,and her strength and capabilities are established.

 

Lara is missing her father,and is commemorating his disappearance .That very night,she has a dream about him,in which he's telling her about the exact alignment of the planets activating a triangle,which occurs only once every 5000 years .

As she wakes up,she hears the ticking of a clock in a wall,breaks it,and finds a clock. Checking it with her trusty friends and team,she finds out it's a camouflage for another different kind of clock hiding inside.

She goes to one of her father's friends to ask about what it could be,and the man notifies the villain about it,the villain who is after it,because he wants to rule the world.

 

The very same night she visited her father's friend,the villain's special ops team pays her a visit and wreck her house and almost kill them all in an attempt to get the mysterious clock.

 

The villain gets the clock,and this sets Lara on his tracks to get it back and to save the world.

 

The movie honestly had a ridiculous plot,but you can tell Angelina had fun playing in it. The actors were all great,the music was fine,the visual effects not so good in certain scenes. I loved the fighting scenes,really great for that time,and I don't think anyone attempted any of the kind since.

 

The one thing that bothered me was towards the end,when she fights the villain,the man is stabbed, but he can fight her and win,without any trouble.

 

The movie is for rent or buy on Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Vudu, YouTube.

 

Rating : Worth a watch !