ALICIA VIKANDER TOMB RAIDER TRAINER MOVIE

Turning things to Walton Goggins - the man proves time and time again he can be menacing without needing to crank the dial to 11.

ALICIA VIKANDER TOMB RAIDER TRAINER MOVIE

Who these people really are is hardly a mystery given their impressive stature as actors who don't need to appear in a movie like this for nondescript cameos. Yaffe played by Derek Jacobi, it's obvious this film is but a stepping stone in a story arc designed to span a franchise.

It's a solid start for an origin but once that A plot kicks in and we get to know Kristin Scott Thomas's Ana Miller and Mr. This is an inexperienced young woman before we see her fully become the Lara Croft we know and love from video games past. Think a more playful, less dramatically inclined Batman Begins. We get to know Lara when she's young, untrained, tough, but emotionally wrecked. I knew it was going to happen because that's exactly what game studio Naughty Dog did with Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.įamiliarity is one thing, but the real bummer of how Tomb Raider turns out is that it squanders its otherwise solid first half. When the deadly zombie plague is revealed, it wasn't a surprise. We already played all of the action sequences in previous video games. We've already seen the basic Lost Parent/Spurned Child plot of this film and the mechanics of the mysterious tomb in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Not helping matters is the over-reliance on what's already been done. The mechanics of what is happening had been so thoroughly telegraphed several scenes ahead so that when anything interesting or exciting looks like it's about to happen, you already know how it's going to play out. As I watched through Tomb Raider I felt ten paces ahead of the plot at all times. The problem is an overwhelming sense of familiarity. Unfortunately, the film fleshes everything out with tried and true tropes from better movies and video games we've already spent countless hours playing through. The skeletal framework for a genuinely successful Hollywood action adventure movie and the first truly successful video game movie is there.

Lara must confront her personal demons and the maniacal exhibition leader Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins) if she's going to solve the deadly mystery of the tomb of Himiko and learn the truth about her father's fate. When compelled to sign a death certificate by company manager Ana Miller (Kristin Scott Thomas) or lose her family fortune forever, Lara accidentally discovers a clue to her father's location. Feeling abandoned by her only surviving parent, Lara scratches a living as a bike courier in London. Raised with immense wealth and privilege courtesy of her father Richard (Dominic West), she gave everything up when her father went missing during an expedition to find the mysterious deadly tomb of Himiko. Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) is slumming it. While taking a page from the 2013 reboot game, this new Tomb Raider plays things so close to video game plotting and action mechanics that it numbingly feels like you're watching your best friend play a video game for two hours without letting you get a turn at the controls. Hopes were high when Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander signed on for Roar Uthaug's reboot Tomb Raider, but alas the hunt for the perfect video game movie continues. Somehow Hollywood just hasn't figured this market out. Unfortunately, most video game film adaptations have shifted from the wretched Uwe Bowl films like Postal and House of the Dead to the stupidly fun Street Fighter to the unintentionally hilarious while being awful Super Mario Bros. Hollywood has long been in the hunt to make video games like comic books - the next big super blockbuster cinematic franchise event.

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