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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
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Reviews Counted:150
Fresh:35
Rotten:115
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: Though the sequel is an improvement over the first movie, it's still lacking in thrills.
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $65,628,448
Synopsis: Popular video game character Lara Croft returns to the big screen in this sequel to LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER. Intrepid British archaeologist Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) has made perhaps the most... Popular video game character Lara Croft returns to the big screen in this sequel to LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER. Intrepid British archaeologist Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) has made perhaps the most important archaeological discovery in history: an orb that leads to the mythical Pandora's Box. Unfortunately, the orb falls into the hands of Jonathan Reiss (Ciaran Hinds), an evil scientist who deals in killer viruses and hopes to sell the secrets of the box as the ultimate weapon. Recruited by British Intelligence to get the orb back from Reiss, Lara enlists Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler), a British marine turned mercenary--and her former love interest--to help. The two embark on an adventure that spans continents in an attempt to regain the orb. Lara is a walking advertisement for "girl power." She's brilliant, athletic, courageous, and saucy. She flips jet skis, parachutes to safety from tall buildings, dives, rides horses--nothing seems beyond her. Best of all, Lara is one of the good ones--she'll do whatever she must to keep the world safe. Directed by Jan de Bont, this film was shot on location in Greece, Kenya, Hong Kong, England, and Wales. [More]
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciaran Hinds, Djimon Hounsou
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciaran Hinds, Djimon Hounsou, Noah Taylor, Til Schweiger, Simon Yam, Chris Barrie
Director: Jan de Bont
Director: Jan de Bont
Screenwriter: Dean Georgaris
Story: Steven E. De Souza, James V. Hart
Producer: Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin
Composer: Alan Silvestri
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Reviews for Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Game sequels generally rely on better graphics and better interactive play. This movie sequel has more imagination and situations that draw you in more. Again, that seems appropriate.
It’s only when Angelina Jolie and Gerard Butler are up close and personal that you get the sense that anybody was really all that interested in making this film.
The film was directed by Jan de Bont, who now should be known as F.K. Jan de Bont; the abbreviation standing for Franchise Killer.
Inane claptrap that's sure to be forgotten in the time it takes to rattle off its elongated title.
Bombastic it may be, but it's rarely boring, as was the first Tomb Raider. Keep your expectations in line with the source material and you may be pleasantly surprised.
As a collection of action sequences, The Cradle of Life couldn't be less rousing were it performed by the cast of Cocoon.
At least a bit more comprehensible than its predecessor -- say, a second-rate Indiana Jones rip-off instead of a third-rate Indiana Jones rip-off.
Is “Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life” worth it? No. If you’ve sent the first, you’ve seen the second.
Uses imagination and exciting locations to give the movie the same kind of pulp adventure feeling we get from the Indiana Jones movies.
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