The second action sequence takes place in an abandoned South American temple where half of a triangle (or some such nonsense) needs to be discovered. Here we get to watch Croft fly round and round on elastic ropes and do all sorts of impossible moves. The first comes as an SAS-style team grapple into Croft's country mansion to lay waste to her furniture and attempt to retrieve a priceless artefact. I had been led to believe that this was an action-packed movie, perhaps similar to THE MUMMY or other blockbusters of recent years, but instead I find a plot-laden film with three large action set-pieces in it. While it certainly looks impressive, the "feel" of the film is just wrong, especially those impossible-to-reproduce action sequences which seem to have been inspired by THE MATRIX - they're just out of place totally with the game's more simplistic style of action.
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Has TOMB RAIDER the movie transferred the game's feel to the movies? I'd answer no. Now, I've actually only played the original game a couple of years ago (and none of the sequels), but I enjoyed it for what it was. The idea was that you controlled explorer Lara Croft and explored many temples, mountains, secret underground lairs and countryside in search of untold treasures. For those who've been living on a mountain top for the past decade, Tomb Raider was originally a pretty cool computer game, one of many in the post-Doom crowd. Sadly, intelligence is somewhat lacking in Hollywood these days by the looks of things, so TOMB RAIDER is happy to rehash cold plot ideas from Indiana Jones and intersperse them with silly MTV-style scenes of action all set to a loud, thumping techno soundtrack. A fairly middling big-budget blockbuster, neither bad enough to be unwatchable or good enough to be re-watchable, this movie wastes a starry cast (most of whom are wasted in nothing roles - as per usual) and one spectacular set-piece in favour of a deeply confused script and far too much flashy location work, when perhaps a little bit more realism and intelligence wouldn't have gone amiss.
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