Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Critic Reviews
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So monumentally silly, yet so wondrous to look at, that only a churl could find fault.Read the full review
Rather than the mad, kinetic video-game vigor you'd expect, the movie proceeds at a more leisurely and methodical gait. I rather liked that.Read the full review
She's (Jolie) the most amazing special effect in movies. The best thing in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is a bungee-jumping ballet that Lara performs late at night in her mansion, soaring high and low in Japanese silk pajamas and with her hair pulled tightly back.Read the full review
As cumbersome as most films in this subgenre, Angelina Jolie makes it watchable.Read the full review
This is just cut-rate, generic daughter of Indy Jones hokum.Read the full review
If only the story that surrounds this watchable heroine were as well-stacked.Read the full review
Sitting through the lavish and dumb action spectacular Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is about as much fun as watching someone else play a video game.Read the full review
Slick-dick director Simon West, of "Con Air" and "The General's Daughter" infamy, continues to show no flair at all for blending action and character. Jolie and Lara deserved better. So did we.Read the full review
Has the distinction of being a major motion picture that's far less imaginative, and quite a bit more stupid, than the interactive game it's based on.Read the full review
These are good moments, and there are a few others, that prevent Tomb Raider from being one of the worst films of the year. But they're not enough to make it worth seeing.Read the full review
