When I saw Anjelina Jolie was targeted to play Lara Croft in the new Tomb Raider movie I went Goose Pimply all over! I expected so much and to my disappointment I did not see a brilliant movie.
In fact, after all the hype about this being the beginning to the Summer Blockbusters it was not actually a very good film. The action scenes were adequate, with only the fight with the movey-statue-thingys coming to mind as being any good! The final sequence in which Jolie faces her fathers killer is over in a few minutes leaving me slightly disappointed.
The performances were good and Jolie, Chris Barrie, Iain Glen and Daniel Craig were very fitting for the roles they played. But the roles they played were often confused and disjointed - was Glen intended to play a comic book villain who made us smile more than scared, was Craig a good guy or bad guy?
These questions were just a few instances on where Simon West (director of the brilliant Con Air) should have smartened his film up, and instead of relying on his leading lady to wow the audience (which, she does) should have probably included some other interesting characters to involve the audience more.
When you are given the task of bringing Lara Croft to life in a much anticipated movie, the director should really concentrate on making an incredible movie that will stun audiences. He should have brought style and variety to the action sequences instead of making them tiring and repetitive. All in all, Tomb Raider was a fair movie, but not the movie that I quite expected to see. Rating = 2/5
In fact, after all the hype about this being the beginning to the Summer Blockbusters it was not actually a very good film. The action scenes were adequate, with only the fight with the movey-statue-thingys coming to mind as being any good! The final sequence in which Jolie faces her fathers killer is over in a few minutes leaving me slightly disappointed.
The performances were good and Jolie, Chris Barrie, Iain Glen and Daniel Craig were very fitting for the roles they played. But the roles they played were often confused and disjointed - was Glen intended to play a comic book villain who made us smile more than scared, was Craig a good guy or bad guy?
These questions were just a few instances on where Simon West (director of the brilliant Con Air) should have smartened his film up, and instead of relying on his leading lady to wow the audience (which, she does) should have probably included some other interesting characters to involve the audience more.
When you are given the task of bringing Lara Croft to life in a much anticipated movie, the director should really concentrate on making an incredible movie that will stun audiences. He should have brought style and variety to the action sequences instead of making them tiring and repetitive. All in all, Tomb Raider was a fair movie, but not the movie that I quite expected to see. Rating = 2/5