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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

2001

Simon West

Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Iain Glen, Noah Taylor ...

4.5

28,061

Adventure. Action. Fantasy Lara Croft is a wealthy, British archeologist/tomb raider who tries to thwart a secret society/doomesday cult seeking two pieces of a mysterious device hidden in two different places of the world in order to use it during a rare planetary alignment to bring them unlimited power to control or destroy the world.

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Carr Boston Globe	"As cumbersome as most films in this subgenre, Angelina Jolie makes it watchable"	POS
United States	Jack Mathews New York Daily News	"Has all the appeal of a video game without the joystick. All you can do is watch. It's noisy and moves fast, but if you can't play, why pay?"	NEU
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"Without [Jolie's] elated arrogance, the movie would be a pallid approximation of a video game, one missing the vital element of interactivity."	NEU
United States	Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer	"A by-the-numbers extravanganza that journeys from London to Venice to Siberia to Cambodia without ever really going anywhere"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Has the distinction of being a major motion picture that's far less imaginative, and quite a bit more stupid, than the interactive game it's based on"	NEG
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"It is the perfect modern product: loud, banal, empty, frenzied, plasticized, flavorless, drab, violent in a bloodless way and sexy in a sexless way"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Lara Croft Tomb Raider' elevates goofiness to an art form. Here is a movie so monumentally silly, yet so wondrous to look at, that only a churl could find fault (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Simon Braund Empire	"Not disastrous, but somewhat disappointing nonetheless (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Neil Smith BBC	"Jolie is terrific (...) We never feel she is in any actual peril - a flaw compounded by Glen's utterly unthreatening turn as the requisite British villain (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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