Review of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003) by Jason V — 18 Apr 2009

A bit better than the 1st one.

Phew, I've learned a few weeks ago, that, finally, a sequel is coming. It was time, 6 years after the 2d one, who've been made only 2 years after the 1st.

I've read also that it'll sadly maybe not anymore be Angelina.

I've read a lot of names that I forgot, but I remember 1 who's a good choice, Rhona Mitra.

Why good?

Cause she's pretty, knows roles like this (Doomsday, Underworld 3, or Beowulf, the one of 1999, with also Christophe Lambert, not animated like the newest one), and, the best reason, cause Toby Guard (creator of Tomb Raider) chose her to be the very first girl to embody Lara Croft.

Indeed she did it for trade shows, for magazines... during a long time.

Before others did, and the last ones even had their body shapes used to create the games; not their faces, neither voices, only shapes.

This story full of technologies, fights well choreographed, mystery, beautiful landscapes, a good cast (till the small roles in Asia or Africa) is excellent.

The monsters are great. Very very well done effects in this part of the movie.

Now, I so would like to fight them in a Tomb Raider game, but they didn't appear, in any of the games made since the movie. They should really think to use them.

If some of those games can be very freaking when u play in the dark, in the middle of the night, alone at home and with any noise but the game (not as much as the Resident Evil, Alone in the Dark, Cold Fear, Manhunt or others, but, anyways...), they could be even more scary with these creatures.

This movie isn't totally faitful to the games, but no one adaptation really is. We always all are a bit disappointed by this element; like for the adaptations of the books or comics we loved.

But, contrary to others (like Hitman, even if it was pretty good, or like Max Payne, who was so disappointing), it's full of small or big elements of faithful to Toby Guard's creation.

Otherways, I love when movies (like the Indiana Jones, The Mummy, and National Treasure series also) mix real events and people of the history with their story, to make it seems true.

Here the Pharaoh, the Clay chinese army or Alexander the Great.