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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