Ironically in 'Tomb Raider' they got the hard part right and messed up the easy part. The hard part in my opinion was correctly casting 'Lara Croft'. To follow in the shoes of a peak-of-her-powers Angelina Jolie is no easy feat. They pulled that off though by finding Alicia Vikander who was excellent in this film. The part they messed up though, and why this is such a bland experience, was they just didn't give her anything interesting to do. The film starts off fun. The character introductions are clever, interesting and get you amped for what is to come. Then when the actual adventure begins the entire film stalls and never manages to start up again. The location was mildly interesting, but for almost the entire film to be set on the one island just felt lazy and uncreative - especially with a runtime near 2 hours. Also the villain was about as dull as they come.Vikander is what saves this from being a total misfire though. She has the look, the charisma and the sexiness to pull off the character with ease. There was a bit of controversy with the films poster and her abnormally long neck in it. I couldn't help but notice that she does have a very long neck in reality, but the poster was still taking things a bit far clearly. I certainly couldn't recommend this as a film to rush out and see because it is so uninspiring and middle of the road. It's not terrible, it just never dares to be great.

Whilst Jolie is undoubtedly a strong actress, her Croft was over-the-top, emotionless and cynically self-aware. The movies she starred in were muddled, and drew from one too many genres. The reboot is far better all round, and firmly grounded in the adventure genre. Lara no longer looks like a fetish model, no longer pouts at the camera, and has some vulnerability. She's an actual human being this time around, thanks to Vikander's wonderful portrayal, which goes beyond the page. The first act is the most successful in my view. The script establishes Croft's emotional wound, the flawed persona that's arised from that, and takes the time to create some moments of empathy. It's classic in it's plot structure, right down to Croft's initial refusal of the call to adventure. This movie speaks in the language of cinema, unlike the older ones. It's solid all round, with some likeable side-characters and some unique action. It's weaknesses however lie with the tomb-raiding, and later set-pieces which strain the suspension of disbelief. There's an overuse of CGI, a bland villain, a not-so-interesting MacGuffin, a tomb with overly high tech booby-traps. But all in all, you could do worse thanks to a well structured plot, and a great turn in from Alicia Vikander. I know a sequel is up in the air, but I do hope WB have the sense to keep Vikander onboard. It's not the greatest start possible to the franchise, but it's by no means a misfire

The movie starts interesting, but gets boring and boring. They mixed up all elements of different games (specially the saga's reboot Tomb Raider of 2013), they even got Richard Croft dead, alive and again dead (what the heck, just let the man be dead), something I haven't seen in the past two games or the previous three before the reboot. Lara doesn't even know how to use a gun, she gets a bow and for no reason runs trough the jungle trying to get faster (?) to Vogel...The color was horrible. The dialogue, awful. Lara gets emotions out of nowhere. But the cherry to the top of the cake was the final 15 minutes: Crofts owned a company that they were fighting against? Seemed so cliche and so bad exploited that got, if possible, the movie worst.

Dude this movie had it all. Humor, adventure, mystery. I loved this flick! I love the character although I got stuck on the 1st of the new games lol, this is by far the best rendition. I loved her acting, the story was entertaining and a well spent watch. Great job guys. I hope you do another with Alicia. She owned it. Loved it.