Review of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) by Dahurtbizness — 14 May 2022

20 years later, this movie is based on core design's original tomb raider iconic classic game series 1996 - 2003.

This movie series loosely adapts from the games with zero returning characters, and unnecessary changes by removing zip and Alister fletcher by replacing them with brace and making winston smith - lara's butler young and dumb while in the games he's always been depicted as old and wised. the story is bland and super safe no real threat to the protagonist he's ur very average cookie cutter generic, basic villain, kinda funny that they cast this guy later for resident evil movies later but that's a whole another story for a different review. random ally characters that's made for this film version has no backstory and underdeveloped motivations and would just appear without not giving any type of reason to care at all on what's going on and about them. welp it was good enough for core design to stamp their approval by advertising this movie on Tomb Raider: Chronicles and then later on core's Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel Of Darkness game for this movie sequel :" TR: the cradle of life.

Cons: there's no mentioned of Lara's mentor: warner von Croy no references or anything and its disappointing, it just feel like alot of lost potential, including lara's origin story from tomb raider: the last revelations alot of her allies are just plot devices to get the story moving forward and everything is conviant. none of that ever happens in the games the story is super safe and basic as u can get for a action adventure story with a weak script and plot armor.

Pros: young Angelina Jolie embodies lara croft in every way: she's strong, independent, confident, and etc.

The atmosphere perfectly recaptures the dark tone that it had in the games, the intro of the movie with the robot was good and the soundtrack is awesome.