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Film Review: Tomb Raider

Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) has forsaken her family fortune to become a London bicycle courier and amateur MMA fighter. After receiving an item from her missing (presumed dead) father, Lara goes in search of a cursed island in Japan carrying ancient treasure and an awful secret. After many of years in need of a revival, […]

Christopher Marchant by Christopher Marchant
2018-03-14 22:54
in Film, Film Reviews, New Movies
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Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) has forsaken her family fortune to become a London bicycle courier and amateur MMA fighter. After receiving an item from her missing (presumed dead) father, Lara goes in search of a cursed island in Japan carrying ancient treasure and an awful secret.

After many of years in need of a revival, a new Tomb Raider game was launched in 2013, taking us to the origins of this pistol wielding archaeologist/thief. Jokes about DD pixels became obsolete; the new Lara was refined, vulnerable, and human. Perhaps a remade film version was inevitable, now that the estimable Ms. Croft was a more cinematically viable character.

By the low bar of being compared to the Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider films, this sleeker Alicia Vikander version sails over. Indeed, when contrasted against other titles within the sub genre of video game adaptations (none of which have ever scored a ‘fresh’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes), Tomb Raider could more confidently be considered a significant success. It’s a good action film, deftly bridging the gaps between those looking for a enjoyable romp, fans of the newer games from 2013, and fans of the original PlayStation trilogy (the less said about the instalments released in between, the better).

Some music choices at the opening act are a little overdone, and plot contrivances can grate if you overthink them. Yet there’s such energy, sincerity and passion in this project that I willed it forward, and this was more than enough to overcome any traps the script could’ve walked into.

Vikander makes for a convincing appropriation of the new Lara Croft. This is the sort of action heroine that Charlize Theron excels at; beautiful without being overly sexualised, tough by as much necessity as choice.

Supporting performances from Dominic West, Nick Frost, and Kristin Scott Thomas are decent if not spectacular (though West’s overuse of the term ‘sprout’ does get annoying). Walton Goggins is a disappointing villain, never able to really strike fear into the hearts of viewers (or convincingly into Lara). The idea of being shipwrecked and forced into slavery by psychopathic goons does stick however.

The action scenes have been criticised online as merely a live action redo of the game that inspired the film, but this is a highly unfair judgement. From the outset, as Lara cycles for DefinitelyNotDeliveroo™ the action scenes are well shot, and for the first half hour the only things remotely similar to the game is Richard Croft’s voiceover explanation of this supernatural relic.

Further on, the film really kicks into gear as tombs get raided and Lara has to get brutal. It’s always fun, even if never completely able to escape the strained origins of the 2013 game’s mawkish cutscenes (that said, nods to the original trilogy of games are some of the most enjoyable moments in the film).

The right mindset and an affinity for the series’ ancestry should be enough for an audience to enjoy some high production values, great action scenes, and a solid performance (and accent) from Vikander. Lacking these may make one more attuned to plot holes and slaps in the face to audience intelligence, but as one of the unashamed converted, I couldn’t tell you for sure.

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