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Wednesday, 4 April 2018

Tomb Raider 2018 Movie Review



Alicia Vikander is Lara Croft in the gun-toting explorer’s latest big-screen outing. But you’ll find no connection to Angelina Jolie’s (underrated) 2001 and 2003 movies here. Just like with a video game console, the reset button has been hit.

Here we meet a rather undefined Lara Croft, who visits an uncharted island where she uncovers a mysterious organisation’s plans to unearth a deadly artefact. Lara quickly finds herself fighting for survival as she traverses unstable plane wrecks atop booming waterfalls and scales cliff walls with her trusted pick axe.

But while director Roar Uthaug takes the legend of Lara Croft to new heights with spectacular stunts and big thrills, it’s Vikander’s rock-solid performance that grounds pop culture’s most badass heroine, rendering her far more than the object of sexual desire she was best known for in more previous years.

Based on the popular video games – specifically the latest critically-acclaimed reboot versions –Tomb Raider breathes new life into the video game-movie with a prequel-style debut that echoes the likes of Casino Royale and Batman Begins. And like such movies, hopefully this is the first in a long and prosperous franchise.

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