ALICIA VIKANDER TOMB RAIDER COSTAR DOMINIC MOVIE

For some reason this movie repeatedly shows us flashbacks of something that happened just minutes beforehand. From the direction, to the lighting, to the cinematography, to the score, it was all just passable and nothing more.īefore I conclude this review, I want to briefly touch on something that this movie does that I hate seeing in movies. However, everything else was totally unremarkable.

The CGI backdrops all looked pretty convincing and even the use of character animation that was sprinkled in here and there looked pretty good and didn’t distract or take me out of the movie too much. The special effects were actually pretty impressive overall. Next I want to cover some of the movie’s technical elements. Any one of those would yielded the exact same results meaning that while Vikander was perfectly serviceable, she brought nothing special or original to the role. The other rumoured names before Vikander was officially cast were Emelia Clarke and Daisey Ridley. You could have cast any young actress in this role and you would have gotten the same result. I’m not sure if it’s the material that the filmmakers gave her to work with, but she is totally underwhelming and never defines the character in any major way or makes it her own. However, she just doesn’t sell the character for me. I have liked Alicia Vikander in every other role that I have seen her in and I was looking forward to seeing her performance as this iconic character. Let’s talk about Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft. This leads us into some exciting action set pieces that call back to the original game and are probably the best parts of the movie, so I won’t spoil them here. The issue being that the material is pretty garbage, which is the case for this movie’s script in general.įrom here, Lara goes through the motions of becoming more of a bad-ass survivor. Walton Goggins, who again is one of my favourite actors, does his best with the material that he is given. Mathias is nothing like he was in the game, where he was a mad priest type character, here he is a tired faithless mercenary that just wants to get the job done and go home. Lara wakes up with Walton Goggins’ character Mathias holding her at gun point. So the two of them go to this remote island and a storm hits the boat, forcing the two of them overboard. He is actually pretty enjoyable in the movie and probably does a better job selling his character than his Oscar winning co-star, but we will get back to that later. The guy she finds from Into The Badlands, turns out to be the boatman’s son and he agrees to help her for some cash. So she goes to Thailand to look for the guy that her dad bought the boat from to go to the remote island with the treasure on it. He went missing seven years ago and is the catalyst for Lara’s adventure to begin. Her dad is played by Dominic West, who is one of my favourite actors, but unfortunately he is kind of wasted here. For some reason she lives a poor life as a delivery girl that can’t even afford to pay her gym membership, even though she has a massive fortune of inheritance money sitting there that is hers once she signs off on her father’s death certificate. First of all, they spend far too much time following Lara in London before she goes on her adventure.

If you played the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot game, then you will see a lot of similarities here, except most of it isn’t done as well as it was done in the game. Well the thing is, all other video game movies that has been made are so poor, that this mediocre action-adventure flick is the gold standard in comparison. Now, I know what you are thinking, “Dan, this is an unremarkable, often forgotten, half baked attempt at launching a Tomb Raider franchise you can’t open your review with a statement like that!” I re-watched the 2018 Tomb Raider movie for review recently and I still believe that this is the greatest video game movie ever made. Starring: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West & Walton Goggins Produced by : Patrick McCormick & Denis O’Sullivan Written by: Geneva Robertson-Dworet & Alastair Siddons

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