When the first trailer came out on The Late Late Show with James Corden (yes, really) last year, I thought it would be a fun watch. And kinda overdue for a reboot (apparently they let the rights lapse or something since the last movie over 10 years ago and someone else bought them right up) as the video game is also being rebooted, erm, again? Also, Alicia Vikander is quite the badass in this movie and I'm glad they didn't make her bear the burden of oversized boobage.
I'm kinda glad that they're starting the reboot at the beginning of her erm, tomb raiding career? Lara Croft is a rich white girl with too much time on her hands who just happens to be good at puzzle solving.
- I'm kinda glad that they got English people to play English characters...?
- Seriously, how long did Kristin Scott Thomas and Sir Derek Jacobi were on set for? It can't have been more than a day...
- Of course she found the one Chinaman who happens to be bilingual... isn't her character supposedly quite the polyglot?
- Did she have her underarms lasered before leaving London or something?
- You kinda feel for her every time she's in pain...
- I thought the action scenes were not bad.
- For a man who's been hiding on an island for 7 years, I thought he would be more scraggly-looking. Of course we all know that he wasn't going to make it to the end of the movie.
- Yay, they didn't kill off Daniel Wu...!! Will he be in (if any) of the sequels?
- Does she mean that she now has money to do whatever she wants? Does it make her Lady Croft? (in some version of the game or movie she got her father's title or something)
I don't know if there'll be a sequel since it's not out in America yet, so those US opening weekend figures are TBD. But it exceeded my low expectations and it was a fun watch. So I hope there'll be sequels (since the ending's set up for them). Mind you, it's also over 2 hours, so you've been warned.
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