Tomb Raider
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Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.
What critics thought
Critics were split almost exactly down the middle, with near-universal agreement that Alicia Vikander is a compelling Lara Croft — and near-universal frustration that the film around her isn't worthy of that performance. The sharpest divide was over whether the action's grounded, human-scale approach compensated for a generic, by-the-numbers plot, or whether it only highlighted how little the story had to offer.
“The exciting surprise of the new Tomb Raider, directed by the Norwegian genre specialist Roar Uthaug, is that it doesn't tamp down Vikander's inner flame, or the three-dimensionality of her talent; it doesn't fold and insert her into an overly gymnastic and CGI-happy thrill ride. The movie is full of vine-swinging, bow-and-arrow-shooting, ancient-spirit-meeting action, but most of it is staged on a convincing human scale, one that's been expertly tailored to its star's understated directness.”
Owen Gleiberman·Variety
“this is a beautifully crafted and unpretentious piece of action cinema, with several sequences that are as gorgeous as they are thrilling, and a female hero who's as elegant as she is deadly: an ass-kicking Audrey Hepburn.”
Matt Zoller Seitz·RogerEbert.com
“The Lara Croft reboot Tomb Raider isn't half bad for an hour. Then there's another hour. That hour is quite bad. It's no fun watching your action heroine get shoved, punched, and kicked to the sidelines of her movie, while the menfolk take over and take turns overacting before expiring.”
Michael Phillips·Chicago Tribune
“When all the one-dimensional supporting characters and familiar action moves fall by the wayside, the one thing left standing is Vikander... The film strains credulity even for a vid-game fantasy by letting the leading lady recover quickly from bad injuries, but other than that, Vikander commands attention and is the element here that makes Tomb Raider sort of watchable.”
Todd McCarthy·The Hollywood Reporter
“Throughout, Vikander maintains a kind of serene evenness of manner. Blandness is Lara's theme.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
Genres
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Cast & Crew
Roar UthaugDirector
Alicia VikanderLara Croft
Dominic WestRichard Croft
Walton GogginsMathias Vogel
Daniel WuLu Ren
Kristin Scott ThomasAna Miller
Derek JacobiMr. Yaffe
Alexandre WillaumeLieutenant
Tamer BurjaqMercenary
Adrian CollinsMercenary
Keenan ArrisonMercenary
Milton SchorrMercenary
Tom HolkenborgComposer
Geneva Robertson-DworetWriter
Evan DaughertyWriter
George RichmondCinematographyTomb Raider
Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.
What critics thought
Critics were split almost exactly down the middle, with near-universal agreement that Alicia Vikander is a compelling Lara Croft — and near-universal frustration that the film around her isn't worthy of that performance. The sharpest divide was over whether the action's grounded, human-scale approach compensated for a generic, by-the-numbers plot, or whether it only highlighted how little the story had to offer.
“The exciting surprise of the new Tomb Raider, directed by the Norwegian genre specialist Roar Uthaug, is that it doesn't tamp down Vikander's inner flame, or the three-dimensionality of her talent; it doesn't fold and insert her into an overly gymnastic and CGI-happy thrill ride. The movie is full of vine-swinging, bow-and-arrow-shooting, ancient-spirit-meeting action, but most of it is staged on a convincing human scale, one that's been expertly tailored to its star's understated directness.”
Owen Gleiberman·Variety
“this is a beautifully crafted and unpretentious piece of action cinema, with several sequences that are as gorgeous as they are thrilling, and a female hero who's as elegant as she is deadly: an ass-kicking Audrey Hepburn.”
Matt Zoller Seitz·RogerEbert.com
“The Lara Croft reboot Tomb Raider isn't half bad for an hour. Then there's another hour. That hour is quite bad. It's no fun watching your action heroine get shoved, punched, and kicked to the sidelines of her movie, while the menfolk take over and take turns overacting before expiring.”
Michael Phillips·Chicago Tribune
“When all the one-dimensional supporting characters and familiar action moves fall by the wayside, the one thing left standing is Vikander... The film strains credulity even for a vid-game fantasy by letting the leading lady recover quickly from bad injuries, but other than that, Vikander commands attention and is the element here that makes Tomb Raider sort of watchable.”
Todd McCarthy·The Hollywood Reporter
“Throughout, Vikander maintains a kind of serene evenness of manner. Blandness is Lara's theme.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
Genres
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Cast & Crew
Roar UthaugDirectorAlicia VikanderLara CroftDominic WestRichard CroftWalton GogginsMathias VogelDaniel WuLu RenKristin Scott ThomasAna MillerDerek JacobiMr. YaffeAlexandre WillaumeLieutenantTamer BurjaqMercenaryAdrian CollinsMercenaryKeenan ArrisonMercenaryMilton SchorrMercenaryTom HolkenborgComposerGeneva Robertson-DworetWriterEvan DaughertyWriterGeorge RichmondCinematographyStream
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