![]() ![]() But it’s still quite a lot of good fun with the well-staged action, performers, costly-looking production, classy cinematography Peter Menzies Jr and smart visual effects keeping it pretty nifty.Īn eye-catching Jolie proves an awesome class act, classier than anything else in the movie. Patrick Massett and John Zinman’s screenplay (based on a story by Sara B Cooper, Mike Werb) shows some obvious script problems in sorting out a coherent plot and in penning decent dialogue, so the the movie’s not totally great. This is a bit of a treat, and one to relish. Lara Croft is an uber-fest of all-action, high-kicking shenanigans, with the feisty, ideally cast Jolie unusually acting with her real-life father Jon Voight as her film dad, famous archaeologist Sir Richard Croft. The 26-year-old Jolie, fresh from her Oscar in Girl, Interrupted (1999), stars as the treasure-hunting English aristocratic heroine, Lady Lara Croft, who battles a mysterious organisation as she battles against the clock and the baddies to locate the legendary Triangle of Light and unite its severed halves to control time. ![]() Lara Croft: Tomb Raider *** (2001, Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Iain Glen, Noah Taylor, Daniel Craig, Chris Barrie, Richard Johnson, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 971ĭirector Simon West’s 2001 action adventure movie, based on the famous video game, sometimes struggles a bit but is always entertaining enough, though its most lasting legacy is that it turned Angelina Jolie into a superstar. ![]()
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