Review of Tomb Raider (2018) by Aaronoz80 — 29 Dec 2018

Dear writers of TombRaider the movie.. YOU SUCK.

Oh and spoiler warning, the film was a mockery of the incredible work, thought and effort that went into the rebooted game franchise.

The game (as created by SquareEnix) was a story about an arrogant young girl trying to prove herself better than her father who’d committed suicide. Through numerous tribulations she was slowly broken, humbled and found the inner will to become what she was destined to be. Through sheer determination and grit, she began to discover the truth about her family and unlearned all that she took for granted in terms of faith and trust. With powerful dialogue and criticism of organised religion, Lara found in herself the resolve and strength to stop an ancient evil and set herself on the path to become the Tomb Raider.

The new Lara was the antithesis of the original video game. No tight shorts, pistols or pointy boobs, the new Lara was real - a relatable heroine who needed no man to get **** done. Just watch the behind the scenes videos. They knew Lara had become a sex symbol for horny boys and wanted to turn her into something that could inspire a new generation of gamers.

Sounds awesome, right? But let's talk about the movie. How did Hollywood handle all the depth of the new Lara? They turned it into a mockery of about a weak heroine with intense daddy issues who constantly needs to be rescued.

You trivialised her trials and pain, instead taking a visual symbol from each conquest and turning it into a bizarre, unrelated plot element. You destroyed the important scene where she was forced to kill for the first time and all the pain and mental anguish that was portrayed so perfectly by the voice actress was pissed away in two seconds of screen time before daddy dances onto the set like some kind of demented garden gnome.

You turned one of the best reboots into a sad shadow of a film where Lara can’t do anything without crying for her father. Oh, and to make it worse, you took all of the supernatural themes out and turned it into something mundane - stripping it of the fantasy and incredibly, the reality.