Uninvolving and formulaic, spiced up in the stretch with a couple of CGI (and looking every bit like it) Tree Hulk-type monsters.
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07/25/03
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
101 - 120 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Everything in Cradle of Life has a kind of robotic precision to it, as if looking perfect were enough to give a movie a soul.
07/25/03
The new film isn't very good, but it's possible to sit through it without holding your nose.
07/25/03
Despite extra scoops of action, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life isn't nearly as much fun as the original.
07/25/03
A film as boring as its title is grammatically incorrect and long.
07/25/03
It's nearly humorless, which is deadly for such movies.
07/25/03
Jolie may be defining herself in a franchise whose memory will be hard to erase later in her career, but she does it with the style of a legend.
07/25/03
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.
07/25/03
As a collection of action sequences, The Cradle of Life couldn't be less rousing were it performed by the cast of Cocoon.
07/25/03
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07/25/03
This time the filmmakers understand how to treat this female fusion of Indiana Jones and James Bond.
07/25/03
There will be little argument that Cradle of Life is a much-improved sequel over its predecessor. Regrettably, it comes on the heels of a movie that should have never been made in the first place.
07/25/03
Like the video games that inspired it, this installment isn't better or worse than the first -- it's just more of the same.
07/25/03
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07/25/03
How could something so expensive, so loud and so frenetic simultaneously be so mindnumbingly boring?
07/25/03
At least now we have a clue about what's in Pandora's Box: It's movies like this.
07/25/03
Uses imagination and exciting locations to give the movie the same kind of pulp adventure feeling we get from the Indiana Jones movies.
07/25/03
Top CriticCroft, who must have pixels for brains, makes a series of incredibly stupid mistakes...
07/25/03
Under de Bont's tutelage the franchise has shifted from amiably plodding but unique to relentlessly plodding and generic.
07/25/03
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