Jithin K Mohan So ludicrous that it's quite entertaining. The plotholes can be only matched by the stupidity of the characters. The use of music feels too confused just like the direction of the rest of the movie but can't deny that watching Angelina Jolie in The Matrix wannabe action with some crazy music was fun even though not even remotely convincing.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" (2001)Here again an adaptation of an immensely successful video game, which has a skilled director Simon West, coming from a straight-down-to-business action movie "Con Air" (1997) starring Nicolas Cage and an suspenseful U.S. military thriller "The General's Daughter" (1999) starring John Travolta; yet the 115 Million Dollar budget, missed-placed somehow with mainly closed-up, no depth-of-field stage sets organized by producer Lawrence Gordon, eyeing fastball return-investments of estimated 275 Million Dollars at the international box office after Summer 2001, making the "Tomb Raider" adaptation still one of the most successful movies based on video games to this day.Actress Angelina Jolie, putting herself through serious mind-, body- and spiritual training periods, which pay off in her screen presence. Nevertheless she cannot save the 90 minutes final cut handed-in by editor Dallas Puett and three additional polish-up editors until there is nothing left of the movie but a shallow basin of well-executed action scenes, especially the one's at Lara Croft's English-countryside mansion, before the picture loses tension points and visual scope in highly expensive exterior shots taking in Iceland and Cambodia, which do not pay off, when further supporting characters as Lord Richard Croft, portrayed in less then 3 minutes screen-time by actor Jon Voight, without ever sharing a breathing beat with real-life daughter Angelina Jolie, and at that time of reception close-to-anonymous actor Daniel Craig as an deniable, unfulfilled love interest for the character of Lara Croft.At least nemesis character Manfred Powell, viciously and menace-spreading-looks striking performance by actor Iain Glen, is able to bring moments of suspense to the screen, when confronting a committee of Illuminati at a Venice, Italy cathedral, presenting that he will solve the mystery of an approaching once in 5000 years interstellar constellation in connection with a triangle relic in shape of the all-seeing eye in order to change time itself. The writings by Patrick Massett & John Zinman for shooting draft deliveries are solid enough that "Tomb Raider: Lara Croft" could have been a neo-classic adventure movie for the 21st century as "Raiders Of The Lost Arc" directed by Steven Spielberg for the 1980s and beyond. But the directorial vision by Simon West and hard-lining producer Lawrence Gordon fell flat throughout post-production with an heartless, unemotional editorial job and an even colder received soundtrack by composer Graeme Revell to mixing efforts by sound designer Steve Boeddeker.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

gavin6942 Video game adventuress Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) comes to life in a movie where she races against time and villains to recover powerful ancient artifacts.Angelina Jolie has had a strange career. She started out as the daughter of Jon Voight (who plays her father here). Whether that helped her or not, I do not know. But she landed some roles in "Hackers" and "Lara Croft". She married Brad Pitt, the king of Hollywood. She is seen as a humanitarian and is now (2015) establishing herself as a director. What a career! This film is a little bit silly. The adventure and action is not realistic, but being based on a video game, it probably shouldn't be. Fun? Yes. And apparently quite successful, since it spawned at least one sequel.

Python Hyena Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001): Dir: Simon West / Cast: Angelina Jolie, Noah Taylor, Jon Voight, Daniel Craig, Richard Johnson: Based on a popular video game providing viewers with stunts and special effects with as little story as possible. Perhaps the producers raided a tomb to find this screenplay without realizing that a plot this dumb was buried for a good reason. Angelina Jolie plays Lara Croft who begins the film with one of many mindless action scenes. She finds a clock that contains a strange object. She is then off to obtain two halves of a triangle that are located at opposite ends of the earth. She must destroy them before they are used to control time. This is apparently done when the planets are aligned together. Director Simon West hasn't the slightest idea what he's doing with this big budget circus act. To his credit he at least takes on projects of different genres. Aside from this he directed the suspenseful The General's Daughter and the embarrassing action crap fest Con Air. Jolie spends much time in bemused combat. Jon Voight provides the only real character as her father, and their scene together is perhaps the one good scene. Noah Taylor and Daniel Craig are at the mercy of cardboard material. Richard Johnson plays someone billed as the Distinguished Gentlemen. The only thing distinguished here is a bad career move. Pointless video game spectacle should be buried in a tomb. Score: 1 ½ / 10