A complete load of twaddle. Not sure why the need was felt to reboot the Lara Croft adventures orginally brought to the screen by Angelina Jolie back in 2000 – other than financial. But a better narrative with a stronger, more convincing lead than Alicia Vikander would have possibly helped.
With Lara’s adventurer father (Dominic West) missing presumed dead, his life work lies dormant. But when Lara discovers clues as to his possible last sighting, she ignores all instructions and heads for a fabled tomb on a mythical island somewhere off the coast of Japan. But she’s not alone in looking for the tomb.
Director Roar Uthaug ebbs and flows with the action – and the first ten or so minutes with Lara independently surviving in London as a bicycle courier draws you into the storyline. But that’s about it as the reboot of a video game-turned-into-a-feature film like the original fails to ignite.
Rating: 34%
Director: Roar Uthaug (The Wave, Escape)
Writer: Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel), Alastair Siddons (Trespass Against Us, TV’s Small Axe)
Main cast: Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, Ex-machina), Dominic West – Testament of Youth, Pride), Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight, TV’s The Shield)
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