. Proves again that Jolie makes a better magazine cover than actor and Lara Croft a better game than rousing archeological adventure. .
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09/22/03
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... [More]
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciaran Hinds, Djimon Hounsou
Director: Jan de Bont
Reviews for Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
21 - 40 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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09/22/03
Top CriticDoubtless the game will be cherished for years to come, as a big screen franchise though, Tomb Raider looks dead and buried.
09/22/03
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life hasn’t the nerve to be truly bad, but it’s unexciting, has no attitude, and (despite the camera’s infatuation with Jolie’s figure) is inhumanly sexless.
09/20/03
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09/12/03
The first movie had grey stone and blue light and orange beams, and it just looked cooler and more together.
09/09/03
Angelina Jolie returns as video game vixen Lara Croft in a by-the-numbers sequel that is weaker than the original.
09/09/03
Jolie does her best, delivering her mediocre lines like they were the cleverest writing in the history of cinema, but goodwill for the star only carries a film so far.
09/06/03
Angelina Jolie's once again strapped on those hilariously-huge fake bazookas, which are about the only things that lift this movie from its celluloid plateau.
08/21/03
It's better than the first one. Now please stop.
08/18/03
Em uma entrevista para divulgar o filme, Angelina Jolie reclamou que o contorno de seus mamilos haviam sido apagados dos cartazes de divulgação da produção. Da próxima vez, espero que ela se preocupe menos com seus mamilos e mais com o roteiro.
08/14/03
Although Jolie is perfect in the lead with her cartoonishly provocative figure, the comely starlet can’t make this shoddy story work.
08/13/03
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08/12/03
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08/09/03
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08/09/03
I wish I could say that even though the film was predictable and the plot egregiously insipid, that I still managed to get lost while watching the movie and had fun. If only.
08/08/03
The whole movie is gratuitous, in whatever it does. Excessive shooting, jumping, flying, freaking, whatever. Totally disposable.
08/08/03
A vast improvement over its impenetrable 2001 predecessor.
08/08/03
There's a ton of stuff that makes absolutely no sense, and the bad guy could be a bit more colorful but again, please grade using The Bond Curve.
08/07/03
Not enough crazy gynophobia. Perhaps Paul Verhoeven should direct Tomb Raider.
08/05/03
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