Review of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) by Jordan K — 01 May 2015

Since the dawn of gaming, it's never been a good idea to make film adaptations of games. The Mario franchise gained itself one of the worst films ever and the fighting games of the mid '90s had lackluster adaptations. Nothing comes more bland than Tomb Raider, which is an excuse for eye candy and scantily clad Angelina Jolie fighting off baddies - it's a snoozefest.

Lara Croft is the notorious tomb raider and adventurous daughter of a historically significant dead explorer, as she must retrieve a stolen clock from the members of the Illuminati, hoping to put together two halves of an artifact to reverse time.

Lara Croft reminds me of a bad cross between Indiana Jones and the Bond franchise (ironically, Daniel Craig before his Bond days plays a role in this). The tech savvy, witty, and forcefully attractive seeming Lara Croft can come off as almost annoying and way too smug, the character knows how situations will end and that she's the best explorer in the country - it gets old, Croft is extremely unlikable and so is everyone else. There's a lot of pointless action sequences, explosions and lights gleaming, outdated early 2000s music, and a reminder that this a mere PS1 gem that won't hold up when reviewing it fourteen years later. Croft is a snoozefest, the characters don't matter and neither does the story.