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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Fantasy /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Jan de Bont
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Actors:
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Ronan Vibert,
Daniel Caltagirone,
Fabiano Martell,
Lenny Juma,
Angelina Jolie,
Gerard Butler,
Ciarán Hinds,
Chris Barrie,
Noah Taylor,
Djimon Hounsou,
Til Schweiger,
Simon Yam,
Terence Yin,
Jonathan Coyne,
Robert Cavanah
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Duration:
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118 min.
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Rating:
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(5.2/10)121.5
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Plot Summary:
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In vogue video game position Lara Croft returns to the big motion pictures in this result to LARA CROFT: Mausoleum RAIDER. Dauntless British archaeologist Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) has made the most portentous archaeological revelation in history: an orb that leads to the folklore Pandora's Box. Unfortunately, the orb falls into the hands of Jonathan Reiss (Ciaran Hinds), an maleficent scientist who deals in killer viruses and hopes to tell on the secrets of the thump as the ultimate weapon. Recruited at near British Intelligence to get the orb back from Reiss, Lara enlists Terry Sheridan (... Gerard Butler), a British marine turned bribable--and her latest love hobby--to improve. The two embark on an adventure that spans continents in an essay to regain the sphere. Lara is a walking hype quest of "Irish colleen power." She's brilliant, athletic, heroic, and saucy. She flips jet skis, parachutes to sanctuary from huge buildings, dives, rides horses--nothing seems beyond her. Best of all, Lara is limerick of the OK champion ones--she'll do whatever she must to mind the world safe. Directed by Jan de Bont, this skin was hurriedly on finding in Greece, Kenya, Hong Kong, England, and Wales.
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Ain't That Great - But I Liked It!
I enjoyed this film for the simple reasons that A) there simply ain't enough ass-kicking babes on screen and B) Lara Croft is a really cool character played brilliantly by the supremely gorgeous Angelina Jolie. Who have we got apart from her? Halle Berry in Catwoman? Lord God help us all. The fact is Miss Jolie is the sexiest babe on screen and needs to be backed up with wicked films - sort it out Hollywood!
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
In the kinder, gentler, dare I say more soulful new Lara Croft movie, Angelina Jolie doesn't just glower ??? she glowers with one eyebrow slightly raised. In any other movie this discreet gesture might go unnoticed, but in an industrial product like Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, any suggestion of humanity deserves notice. That's especially true given that this blockbuster season has thus far been typified by what might be called post-human cinema, one in which nothing ??? including most of the characters ??? bears any resemblance to real life.
Lara Croft, of course, originated in a video game in which real life is pointedly irrelevant. What's relevant to Lara and her legions of fans are her fantastically pneumatic breasts, her awesomely phallic weaponry...
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