Sadly Over-hyped

Absolutely Fantastic

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

She performed extremely well in this movie and helps bring the video game back to life!!!!

Good performances from a number of very talented supporting actors, and an excellent portrayal of Lara Croft by Angelina Jolie cannot save this movie from incompetent filmmaking.Maybe there was once logically and tonally coherent vision for what this film was to be, but what ended up in theaters was a total mess.The ridiculous plot is not the problem, in fact the story is good precisely because it is so over the top and just "out there". It provides a lot of interesting locations and original scenes.Which don't, you know, actually add up to anything fun or memorable because the editing is so terrible.It's telling that the only scene where the stakes feel high is the opening action sequence which is revealed to just be Lara's elaborate training room. The "fake" training room feels more dangerous (and cool! and memorable!) than anything in the rest of the movie which is supposed to be "real". Yeah.The editing is bad. As in "worst I've ever seen" terrible. At a storyboarding level, key establishing shots, connecting shots, reaction shots etc. are missing. The dramatic pacing is completely off, narrative foreshadowing/callbacks are MIA, otherwise good fight scenes mishandled. Characters do inexplicable things. Events happen for no reason. There are a few great visual scenes, and some good framing and composition, and some nice stunt work, but it never joins up into sometime worth your time.

Movie Review: "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" (2001)Here again an adaptation of an immensely successful video game, which has a skilled director Simon West, coming from a straight-down-to-business action movie "Con Air" (1997) starring Nicolas Cage and an suspenseful U.S. military thriller "The General's Daughter" (1999) starring John Travolta; yet the 115 Million Dollar budget, missed-placed somehow with mainly closed-up, no depth-of-field stage sets organized by producer Lawrence Gordon, eyeing fastball return-investments of estimated 275 Million Dollars at the international box office after Summer 2001, making the "Tomb Raider" adaptation still one of the most successful movies based on video games to this day.Actress Angelina Jolie, putting herself through serious mind-, body- and spiritual training periods, which pay off in her screen presence. Nevertheless she cannot save the 90 minutes final cut handed-in by editor Dallas Puett and three additional polish-up editors until there is nothing left of the movie but a shallow basin of well-executed action scenes, especially the one's at Lara Croft's English-countryside mansion, before the picture loses tension points and visual scope in highly expensive exterior shots taking in Iceland and Cambodia, which do not pay off, when further supporting characters as Lord Richard Croft, portrayed in less then 3 minutes screen-time by actor Jon Voight, without ever sharing a breathing beat with real-life daughter Angelina Jolie, and at that time of reception close-to-anonymous actor Daniel Craig as an deniable, unfulfilled love interest for the character of Lara Croft.At least nemesis character Manfred Powell, viciously and menace-spreading-looks striking performance by actor Iain Glen, is able to bring moments of suspense to the screen, when confronting a committee of Illuminati at a Venice, Italy cathedral, presenting that he will solve the mystery of an approaching once in 5000 years interstellar constellation in connection with a triangle relic in shape of the all-seeing eye in order to change time itself. The writings by Patrick Massett & John Zinman for shooting draft deliveries are solid enough that "Tomb Raider: Lara Croft" could have been a neo-classic adventure movie for the 21st century as "Raiders Of The Lost Arc" directed by Steven Spielberg for the 1980s and beyond. But the directorial vision by Simon West and hard-lining producer Lawrence Gordon fell flat throughout post-production with an heartless, unemotional editorial job and an even colder received soundtrack by composer Graeme Revell to mixing efforts by sound designer Steve Boeddeker.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Lara Croft:Tomb Raider is my favorite movie.Performance Of Angelina Jolie is just splendid.Angelina Jolie is the sole reason i loved this movie.Personally i'm a huge fan of Angelina Jolie so i always look up to her movies. I think this movie is the best of all. Ever since i watched this movie, Angelina Jolie has been my favorite action star.I have collected all her action figures and i still admire them to the same extent i did when i was young. Her style, her voice, her acrobatic skills ,her gorgeous smile still amuses me. I've watched this movie over 7 times and still i long to watch them. So my action superstar has always been Angelina Jolie. But the sequel didn't live up to my expectations. In the sequel Angelina was portrayed somewhat differently that i didn't seem to interest me. So i rate this movie 10/10 .No doubt about that.