06-26-2019, 02:33 PM
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^ I prefer Rem Lezar 
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
This was in the '101 Action Movies You Must See Before You Die' book (for some unfathomable reason) and on the BBC iPlayer so I gave it a whirl. I'm sure the then recent release of 1999's 'The Matrix' (a masterpiece) is to blame for this film's assumption that putting loud annoying techno music over anything makes it instantly cool and/or exciting... and not embarrassing. The script is contemptibly bad, with Lara throwing out lines like "It's a dead zone" and "It's a time storm" in a manner that suggests they are explanations. Lara almost always looks perfectly made up, with not a spec of dirt on her and the one time she does get a small scratch on her arm, a Monk gives her some magic tea to make it disappear. After opening with a pointless fight with a giant robot (which is what the Tomb Raider franchise is mainly known for) and a gratuitous shower scene, we cut to the bad-guys explaining the plot to themselves, then to Lara sitting down explaining the plot to her butler, then to a dream sequence where Lara's dead father explains the plot back to Lara and just in case the audience still don't get it, the plot is repeatedly re-explained throughout. Still, at 94 minutes it's short, reasonably eventful, nice looking and doesn't require any taxing concentration from the viewer.
.Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
This was in the '101 Action Movies You Must See Before You Die' book (for some unfathomable reason) and on the BBC iPlayer so I gave it a whirl. I'm sure the then recent release of 1999's 'The Matrix' (a masterpiece) is to blame for this film's assumption that putting loud annoying techno music over anything makes it instantly cool and/or exciting... and not embarrassing. The script is contemptibly bad, with Lara throwing out lines like "It's a dead zone" and "It's a time storm" in a manner that suggests they are explanations. Lara almost always looks perfectly made up, with not a spec of dirt on her and the one time she does get a small scratch on her arm, a Monk gives her some magic tea to make it disappear. After opening with a pointless fight with a giant robot (which is what the Tomb Raider franchise is mainly known for) and a gratuitous shower scene, we cut to the bad-guys explaining the plot to themselves, then to Lara sitting down explaining the plot to her butler, then to a dream sequence where Lara's dead father explains the plot back to Lara and just in case the audience still don't get it, the plot is repeatedly re-explained throughout. Still, at 94 minutes it's short, reasonably eventful, nice looking and doesn't require any taxing concentration from the viewer.
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