Papers declaring her missing father to be dead. (Dominic West), she refuses her inherited fortune because she won’t sign the the daughter of wealthy businessman and adventurer Lord Richard Croft ![]() When we first meet 21-year old Lara, she’s at loose ends (In one, Lara has toĬope with something video game characters almost never face: the impact of theĪlas, an origin story. That the screenplay sneaks in between action set pieces. Her Oscar-winning skills as an actress to bear in a couple of emotional scenes She worked out obsessively toīulk up for the part and did all her own stunts. Level of eye candy or a kick-ass sex symbol. Roar Uthaug (who made the disaster film The She’s as strong and capable as any male action hero and director Hands down, Vikander is the best thingĪnd gorgeous. Played by Alicia Vikander (replacing Angelina Jolie, who took on the role in This is the second time the saga of Lara Croft has beenīrought to the screen and, for this iteration, the main character is being Result is a dilution of suspense action without suspense can be dull and ![]() Ultimate player, so it’s a given that the character is going to succeed. In a theater, the same sequencesīecome rote because there’s little suspense. Something passive, thereby robbing it of its single most valuable element.Īction sequences in a game can be exhilarating because the player participates Reducing a game – any game – to a conventional movie turns it into The Tomb Raider video games are action-oriented with playability being the key component to what makes them Unfortunately,įaithfulness to the source material doesn’t always result in the best cinematicĮxperience and this is one of those occasions. The most faithful adaptation of a video game to-date.
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