Review of Tomb Raider (2018) by Brandon S — 22 Mar 2018

Had a lot of promise, but it ended up being a worse version of "Raider of the Lost Ark". The plot tries to do too much; e.g. we are barely introduced to one important character before he get captured and put in a chain gang (and from then on really doesn't affect the story in any meaningful way).

The back-to-back "cliffhanger" scenes also get tiring; it even seems that Lara's character acknowledges this when she says, "Really?!" after one particularly egregious example of having to escape a cliffhanger sequence 3 times in a row.

Oh, the film briefly turns into a (completely unnecessary) zombie flick as well.