The film plays out like the multilevel video game, but unlike its PlayStation2 counterpart, we have no control over the action.
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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
121 - 140 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life has the dubious honor of not only being the most lackluster action/adventure film of 2003, but perhaps of the past several years, as well.
07/25/03
Takes cool stuff like ancient myths and you call this archeology? and motorcycling along the Great Wall of China and using bubblegum like MacGyver and turns it all into something... supremely boring...
07/25/03
When we're not offered dime-store CGI or cardboard Temple Settings, we're attacked by action sequences that waver between "stutter-step silly" and "slo-mo stupid".
07/24/03
Another lifeless big-budget sequel that's only going to remind audiences how much they really didn't like the original in the first place
07/24/03
If ever there was a movie fit for permanent entombment, it's this sequel.
07/24/03
Top CriticJolie is a far better actress than this relentlessly shallow material warrants.
07/24/03
Cradle isn't art, but it's exhilarating, funny and even a little romantic.
07/24/03
A confusing rehash of Batman, Indiana Jones and James Bond movies.
07/24/03
There's no pacing, no suspense and no vulnerability for the protagonist so it all soon gets numbingly tiresome.
07/24/03
Cradle has more story and more Jolie but, at just under two hours, it unfolds like a leaden fashion shoot.
07/24/03
An entertaining summertime diversion that doesn't assault the senses.
07/24/03
This has less plot and worse acting than the 2001 original.
07/24/03
After a dramatically disappointing debut in 2001, this video-game character turned action film heroine bites back with an eye-catching and imaginative globe-trotting sequel.
07/24/03
Lara proclaims: 'Some things are not meant to be found.' I nodded quietly in my seat in agreement and then thought, 'Some movies are not meant to be seen, either.'
07/24/03
Probably enough goodwill has been built up in the early sections that most viewers will not take offense when the movie abandons its plot and characters.
07/24/03
Drags a 60-minute B-movie premise into something twice that long.
07/24/03
Croft's quest is to find Pandora's Box before a mad scientist can get there first, open it, and unleash a series of second-rate special effects upon an unsuspecting world.
07/24/03
Inane claptrap that's sure to be forgotten in the time it takes to rattle off its elongated title.
07/24/03
This movie has a better plot, better characters, and better acting than the first one, but let's be honest about it -- no one is going to see this movie for the plot, characters, and acting.
07/24/03
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