Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

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    Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
    2003

    Synopsis

    Tasked by MI6 to find the mythological Pandora's Box, an ancient object supposedly containing one of the deadliest plagues on Earth, Lara Croft must beat evil Nobel Prize-winning scientist turned bioterrorist Jonathan Reiss to it.

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    Cast

    • Angelina JolieLara Croft
    • Gerard ButlerTerry Sheridan
    • Ciarán HindsJonathan Reiss
    • Chris BarrieHillary
    • Noah TaylorBryce
    • Djimon HounsouKosa
    • Til SchweigerSean
    • Simon YamChen Lo
    • Terence YinXien
    • Daniel CaltagironeNicholas Petraki

    Recommendations

    • 63

      Baltimore Sun

      Angelina Jolie focuses her wild energy into outlandish heroics, and emerges with more attractiveness and credibility than all three of those silly Charlie's Angels combined.
    • 60

      Variety

      Jolie is even hotter, faster and more commanding than last time around as the fearless heiress/adventuress, plus a little more human. The less welcome news is that most of the same shortcomings that cramped the first installment are still dogging the sequel, which delivers on action but dawdles through downtime.
    • 60

      Los Angeles Times

      However caricatured a vision of female empowerment, Lara Croft exercises an irresistible tug not just on the adolescent male imagination but the 12-year-old female imagination as well.
    • 50

      Newsweek

      It’s not half bad, with cool locations and a great stunt leap from the top of a Hong Kong high-rise.
    • 50

      Chicago Tribune

      Superior to 2001's "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" in almost every way. It's better directed, more consistently acted, and its writing, while at times ridiculous, at least has a modicum of logic at its core. I still had to slap myself to stay awake.
    • 50

      San Francisco Chronicle

      A creditable genre entry, the rare action movie with a discernible story, an assured pace and a charismatic central character. It falls apart in the end.
    • 50

      USA Today

      Even though the special effects and action sequences are good, the monsters conjured up are rather humdrum.
    • 50

      Austin Chronicle

      Bombastic it may be, but it’s rarely boring, as was the first Tomb Raider. Keep your expectations in line with the source material and you may be pleasantly surprised.

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