Director: Roar Uthaug
Notable Cast: Alicia
Vikander, Daniel Wu, Walton Goggins, Dominic West, Kristin Scott Thomas, Derek
Jacobi, Nick Frost, Jaime Winstone
As a long, long time fan of the game franchise, when Tomb Raider was rebooted for a much more
serious, brutal, and darker game, it was a refreshing change of modernization
for the games and it embraced a cinematic and emotional quality that could be
translated to film. The original Tomb
Raider films are silly fun, hardly anything worth noting outside of that,
but a film version of this latest game reboot should be a fairly easy adaption,
right? Judging by this latest attempt at jump starting a blockbuster franchise,
it’s not. Tomb Raider is a rather
lifeless spin on the classic character and series, failing to resonate on any
level beyond mild curiosity, and simply goes through the motions of what some
mid-level corporate entity thinks an audience wants from a watered-down
adaption of Tomb Raider. There are
moments where the film shows its potential, but most of those are hammered into
the trailers and the film fails to utilizes some of its more interesting
aspects. It’s not a bad film, not on the surface, but it’s a film that’s so
bland that it will easily be forgotten within weeks or months past its initial
release.