Review of Tomb Raider (2018) by Kri U — 28 Mar 2018

Blotchy transition.

The cast has no acting ability except the ones playing Lu Ren, the man coughing in the jungle, the Croft business partner/ friend, the workers and some of the fighters.

Lara Croft's actress can't pull off the lines albeit the lines are often so basic, cheesy, and virtually cut-pasted. She's just not suited for the role though she tries. She did have some good action sequences.

The father seemed to have potential but upon meeting him at the jungle that seemed lost.

I know that Tomb Raider games and movies are so fantastical it's exciting, but there is always that element of " Ok if I were there I would have done this...or this..." It's fantasy that allows us to feel as though it could be true if only for 1.5 hours. But not here.

The jungle vines seem fake. The temple door has such a perfect circular cut in the stone after it was bombed open?!? And it couldn't be open with the bombs? And the people are on an island for 7 years when all they had to do was what they did in the end.... ? No one thought of that? The smugglers were going in and out often bringing in equipment and bombs lol... The father is some intellectual but a Moses looking dude while everyone else is pretty neat and clean?

The queen comes up in a random Halloween booby trap... THAT was supposed to be the wow factor....

Some of the computer effects: the boat crash, the airplane, the end run scene where fine but again not believable.

Also couldn't the father just have cut his arm off???