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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) - Special Collector's Edition


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Three 1/2 out of Five

Movie

Rating: PG-13 (action violence and some sensuality)
Length: 117 minutes

Video

Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic)

Audio

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1

Captions

English

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Plot

She's back! Lara stumbles across a plot to find and use the legendary "Pandora's Box" as a weapon. Will she succeed in foiling this plot while dealing with an ex-beau?

Pros

I enjoyed this film more than the first one; a lot of it has to do with the locations the film was shot. There's still a lot of action and more of a storyline and the bad guy in this movie is much more dislikable.

Cons

The bit with the shark was lame if not just stupid. Jolie is still running around in tight clothes they just decided not to "enhance" her "assets" as much this time.

Extras

  • Audio Commentary by Director Jan de Bont
  • Deleted/Alternate Scenes
  • Featurettes: "Training", "Vehicles and Weapons", "Stunts", "Visual Effects", "Scoring"
  • Gerard Butler's Screen Test
  • Korn Music Video "Did My Time"
  • Davey Brothers Music Video "Heart Go Faster"
  • Original Theatrical Web Site Archive

Recommendation

This film has a little more humor and at least as much action as the original. The difference is the bad guy is simply evil and the movie locations are gorgeous. This is still a brain-action movie but an entertaining one nonetheless.

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Actors

Chris Barrie - Hillary
[Lara Croft: Tomb Raider]
Gerard Butler - Terry Sheridan
[300, Dracula 2000, The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Reign of Fire, Timeline]
Daniel Caltagirone - Nicholas Petraki
[The Lost Battalion]
Robert Cavanah - MI6 Agent Stevens
[Sahara]
Jonathan Coyne - Gus Petraki
Ciarán Hinds - Jonathan Reiss
[Jason and the Argonauts, Miami Vice, The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Veronica Guerin]
Djimon Hounsou - Kosa
Angelina Jolie - Lara Croft
[Alexander, Beowulf, The Bone Collector, Gia, Gone in 60 Seconds, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Original Sin, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Wanted]
Lenny Juma - Village Leader
Fabiano Martell - Jimmy Petraki
Til Schweiger - Sean
[Driven, Inglourious Basterds, King Arthur, The Replacement Killers]
Noah Taylor - Bryce
[Almost Famous, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Vanilla Sky]
Ronan Vibert - MI6 Agent Calloway
[Shadow of the Vampire, Tale of the Mummy]
Simon Yam - Chen Lo
Terence Yin - Xien

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