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Well missing from this sequel, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, are those tight short shorts. Okay, they are in the film all of about 15 seconds, but that is not Angelina Jolie’s (Life or Something Like It) butt. She has a butt double for those short scenes because as she put it, they are not very forgiving. So in other words she doesn’t have a perfect body. But as the adventurous tomb raider Lara Croft, Jolie is much more enjoyable than in the first film. I realize this film is based on an actual video game, but it played out like an action film, which might explain why I was thrilled with this film. After
an earthquake in Greece, treasure hunters go in search of a lost sunken museum
from an earthquake centuries ago. While the amateurs follow the currents, Croft
takes her people another direction. While in an underground tomb she discovers
an orb, but is ambushed and barely makes it out alive. She overpowered a shark
to make her way back to the water’s surface to find her ship was sunk. Back in
the safety of her home she has Bryce (Noah Taylor, Vanilla
Sky) research Greek Orbs. In the meantime she is commissioned to retrieve
this orb because it is a map to Pandora’s Box. She agrees to go after the orb
providing they release former love interest and traitor Terry Sheridan (Gerard
Butler, Reign of Fire). The urgency to
recover this orb is because it is about to fall into the hands of a notorious
arms/chemical weapons dealer who is about to release a plague of biblical
proportions on the world. From here
on this film is packed with action, creativity and firearms. The only scene that
seems more like a video game looked like it was taken right from Lord of the
Rings. In the woods on the way to Pandora’s Box, the trees appear to come
alive and suck people in. I
would like to see a little more tomb raiding along with traps and surprises like
in the Indiana Jones films, but this time I will settle for Croft and Sheridan
actually flying through the sky. What was more appealing about this sequel was
it was not about her showboating her breasts and hot bod with martial arts and
gun slinging, but an actual story and some character development. I am seeing a
pattern though of Croft hooking up with former boyfriends and getting in a
pickle. Grow a little, work with a stranger, see what happens.
Also appearing in this Jan de Bont directed film were Ciaran Hinds, Chris
Barrie, Djimon Hounsou, Simon Yam, and Jonathan Coyne. This movie had
explosions, shooting and adventure, but very little opportunity for eye candy. I
still enjoyed the view even if a firm rugged butt was nowhere to be found. I
gave Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life nine couches out of ten.
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