Review of Tomb Raider (2018) by Cokronakan — 05 Apr 2019

This was a cheesy, super cliche adaptation of a video game to the big screen and a very sloppy and terrible at that one. The directing style started off interesting and it managed to create interest in the first half on the movie with amazingly shot scenes and very good music, creative dialog choices and good script mixed with proper acting skills.

In the second half of the movie everything changed. Like the whole crew and cast was fired and replaced. The movie's plot started to drag and had pacing issues. The acting was overdone due to Hollywood effect, and the script was totally and down right trash, with the cheesy and meaningless one liners and the non existent character dialog.

God awful CGI at times and no music or high quality sound effects for a movie at this budget and magnitude. Terrible fake scenery which wasn't even exploited to the limit when it would have been acceptable.

The plot was shallow, and cliche. Given the fact that they had so much potential with the Tomb Raider title, they went for the complete and utter lazy plot with the generic villain, easily predictable plot twists and superficial meaningless character motivation and emotions.

Overall it felt like the biggest failure of video game adaptation (but we all know that is not true).