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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

2003

Jan de Bont

Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Chris Barrie, Ciarán Hinds ...

4.3

17,485

Adventure. Action. Fantasy Lara Croft (Jolie) faces her most perilous mission: to recover what ancient civilization believed to be the essence of all evil: Pandora's Box. She must travel the globe, from Greece to Hong Kong to Kenya and beyond to get to the box before it's found by a maniacal scientist (Ciaran Hindis) whose plan is to use it for mass annihilation. For this adventure, Lara recruits her ex-partner, Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler), a dangerous ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] uses imagination and exciting locations to give the movie the same kind of pulp adventure feeling we get from the Indiana Jones movies (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Rooney Variety	"Jan De Bont perhaps has a sharper handle on the action sequences (...) but he wades through the exposition and quieter moments with a disappointing lack of verve."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Disappointingly, Jolie is not on full, barking form in this boring Lara Croft follow-up"	NEG
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"A bad B-movie inexplicably blessed with an A-list star (...) The film is clearly superior to its predecessor, but that's mostly because the first 'Tomb Raider' left so much room for improvement."	NEU
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"'Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life' is infinitely more fun and feral than its precursor (...) The central relationship between Croft and Sheridan is a fascinating one (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"This sequel suffers from fatally fuzzy thinking (...) Curiously fun-free, drab and ho-hum (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Nev Pierce BBC	"As incoherent, dumb and stupefyingly bland as its woebegone predecessor (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Andrew Collins Radio Times	"One hopes that, like the box, this lame series will now be sealed for ever (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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