![]() All of this immediately sets the tone that what we’ll be seeing isn’t some sort of Indiana Jones-esque escapade but something more akin to, say, Trainspotting, after which the film eventually makes it way to the island, where the rotten meat of Tomb Raider lies waiting for audiences to taste a slew of emotions, none of which are good. Attend the Walton Goggins Academy Of Stare Acting and learn to master techniques such as this!Ī frenetic series of scenes set in London involving Croft’s workout at a local boxing club & her job as a bike courier open Tomb Raider, all of which are meant to showcase her reckless character and which are oddly backed by a ridiculous, out of place pop soundtrack. Did I mention Nick Frost is here as well? He is, in a role as a pawn shop clerk that was probably meant to elicit chuckles but instead made me wonder what Nick Frost was doing cast in a mess such as Tomb Raider. Even Kristin Scott Thomas, normally a reliably acceptable actress, does little with her tiny role and is ultimately barely worth mentioning. Dominic West might be the standout as Croft’s rugged father, a trait which isn’t saying much, while Walton Goggins can’t seem to decide what to do with his character whatsoever, perplexingly shedding any form of real menace and usually relying on his ability to stare wide-eyed at off-camera objects to move the flow along. In the title role, she plays her part as average as possible, with none of her moments of action showcasing anything special, groundbreaking or innovative. How does the cast take to their respective roles? Sadly, despite the genuine talent involved there’s nothing to praise in this department either-the greatest compliment I can pay Vikander, for example, is that she showed up to the set each day. This brings me to my analysis of Tomb Raider, and in this sense I have to wonder where to begin. Her quest leads her into his secret research tracking a legendary, possibly supernatural long-deceased queen to a presumably uninhabited remote jungle island where she encounters, among a few other things, Walton Goggins as Tomb Raider’s treasure hunting villain, along with a miniscule amount of excitement teased in the film’s marketing. Tomb Raider reboots the theatrical franchise, and the plot is as straightforward as they come, with Alicia Vikander inhabiting the role of Croft as she searches for a reason behind the disappearance of her businessman father Richard (Dominic West) after learning there was more to the man than she was previously lead to believe. Now, with the release of Tomb Raider, yet another glimpse into Croft’s swashbuckling world of exploits, director Roar Uthaug, previously having helmed the 2015 disaster epic The Wave, has brought us a new kind of disaster in the form of this terrible film.
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