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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

2003

Jan de Bont

Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Chris Barrie, Ciarán Hinds ...

4.3

17,499

Adventure. Action. Fantasy Lara Croft (Jolie) faces her most perilous mission: to recover what ancient civilization believed to be the essence of all evil: Pandora's Box. She must travel the globe, from Greece to Hong Kong to Kenya and beyond to get to the box before it's found by a maniacal scientist (Ciaran Hindis) whose plan is to use it for mass annihilation. For this adventure, Lara recruits her ex-partner, Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler), a dangerous ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] uses imagination and exciting locations to give the movie the same kind of pulp adventure feeling we get from the Indiana Jones movies (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		David Rooney Variety	"Jan De Bont perhaps has a sharper handle on the action sequences (...) but he wades through the exposition and quieter moments with a disappointing lack of verve."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Disappointingly, Jolie is not on full, barking form in this boring Lara Croft follow-up"
		Nathan Rabin AV Club	"A bad B-movie inexplicably blessed with an A-list star (...) The film is clearly superior to its predecessor, but that's mostly because the first 'Tomb Raider' left so much room for improvement."
		Ed Gonzalez Slant	"'Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life' is infinitely more fun and feral than its precursor (...) The central relationship between Croft and Sheridan is a fascinating one (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Kim Newman Empire	"This sequel suffers from fatally fuzzy thinking (...) Curiously fun-free, drab and ho-hum (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Nev Pierce BBC	"As incoherent, dumb and stupefyingly bland as its woebegone predecessor (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Andrew Collins Radio Times	"One hopes that, like the box, this lame series will now be sealed for ever (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"

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