Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Lara Croft - Tomb Raider als neues Filmphänomen? Wohl kaum. Die Hauptheldin ist bis auf die Brustpartie flach und platt, ein Graus für den Betrachter (Angelina Jolie versucht vergeblich, ihr einen Hauch von Stil zu verleihen), die Actionsequenzen sind uninteressant, die Story langweilig und fade... Simon West hat sich an einem modernen Actionspektakel versucht und einen formlosen Flickenteppich hingeklopft, aus dem ein paar anständige Choreografien und eine recht witzige Figur des roten Zwerges Chris Barrie hervorgehen. Leider reicht das nicht einmal aus, damit sich Lady Croft ehrlich mit dem Bastler MacGyver und dem verlorenen Schatz von Atlantis herumschlägt. Was nützt ein Big-Budget-Abenteuerfilm, dem es an Abenteuern, einem guten Helden und zumindest einer bemerkenswerten Geschichte fehlt? (11.11.2004)

The plot is stupid, the production design is trite, the action is poor, the humour is non-existent and the actors are abysmal. The only bright spot is Angelina Jolie's physical performance and Chris Barrie's role (well, more of a cameo). It is a great pity that they did not find support in the rest of the team. (24.01.2007)

Visually attractive most of the time, but otherwise a dead end. The travel adventure cliches are all fulfilled by the ultra-banality, but it does not illuminate or explain their use, which is quite embarrassing considering that a fair number of people were involved in the script. And surprisingly, Angelina enjoys playing Lara, but the role of the main heroine fatally doesn't suit me. It just doesn't work like this. (18.05.2006)

Fragmentary, unwittingly funny and, say what you will, Angie still has a long way to go to becoming the real Lara Croft. Simon West piled together a few scenes (the best is probably the one in Cambodia) and stuck them together with shabby stuffing and boring dialogs. While the idea about controlling time could be used really nicely. It was funny all these years later to watch CroftBoy Daniel Craig. Few would have guessed that this was a budding future Bond. Oh and Iain Glen as a bad guy is just ridiculous. (07.09.2007)

I used to really like Angelina for this role. But as it turned out, the film is so stupid that even its visible strengths couldn't save it. A silly story where it's really just about making it look flashy, which also doesn't work because the action scenes come off more stupid than brilliant. Overall, it’s bad. (07.06.2017)