'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' is based on the popular 1990's video game, Angelina Jolie plays its busty protagonist. At the time this movie came out female lead action vehicles were rarer then they are now, this was a big hit, but it's an awful movie. It's not just bad, but more then that it's extremely bad. There are a couple of nice set pieces, I am thinking particularly of the gymnastics themed one in the mansion early on. Lara Croft by the way is 'Lady Croft', she's got an English estate, and is apparently a respected archeologist at age 25. Jolie does a terrible English accent.
There is no substance here, nobody is very interesting, the plot makes little sense and I found the movie mostly boring. Scanning reviews on Rotten Tomatoes the most common word in them that isn't a reference to Ms. Jolie's body is "silly". This movie is silly, but more then that it is stupid.
Again this film made a lot of money, a box office of $274.7 million. It also cost a lot of money, $115 million, heck of a lot, especially in 2001. The end effect is a motion picture that feels like an extremely bloated Roger Corman production, though much of the charm of those is that they have such small budgets, and can feel like they are taking risks. All 'Lara Croft' can really claim as a risk at the time was it's female action lead, but given how tight they made sure to make her clothing the studio knew it wasn't taking much of a risk. *
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