Talk:Tomb Raider (2018 Movie)/@comment-24380534-20180319032139/@comment-2038153-20180319051242

Personally, and with that know this is just my opinion, this film was at best average with a number of issues like the removal of key characters for seemingly no reason that only serve to weaken Lara's own motivation, the over complicated plot, the fact that they straight up ripped off the plot from the first Uncharted game and just how badly written Lara herself was.

Now please note that I think Alicia Vikander did a good job but she had no real character in this film. Most of her screen time was just going from action scene to action scene and while I always respect actors who do their own stunts the fact that a far chunk of the movie was CGI, and really bad CGI at that, I never felt that Lara was in any real danger.

Going back to what I said before, that Lara was badly written, as I just said most of Lara's screen time is just going from one action scene to another with no real development. And most of what she does only serves to aid the villains.

Just a quick list, and be warned I'm giving spoilers for though given that most of you here have likely read the synopses I gotta question your decision in going to places that allow you to avoid spoilers. Okay here is everything Lara does that advances the plot in some way.

1) Lara deliberately ignores her father's request to destroy his research on Yamatai and Himiko and uses said research to find Yamatai. This results in Trinity getting Richard's research which is the very thing he was trying to avoid.

2) After meeting up with a still very much alive Richard Lara disregards his orders to not go to Trinity's camp as it is to dangerous. This results in Lara getting captured again along with her father and Trinity has Lara open Himik's tomb which is exactly what Richard wanted to avoid. On top of that this eventually results in Richard getting infected with Himiko's plague, more on that in a bit, which means Lara is actually responsible for her fathers death. Keep that in the back of your mind.

3) Lara finally does what her father tells her to do and she stops Vogel from getting off the island with Himiko's thumb.

And that's it, that is everything Lara does in the film that isn't a action scene. And in terms of character development? Well this film does copy Lara's first kill from the game only unlike the game where Lara was clearly unnerved by just how good at killing she was and ended the game showing clear signs of trauma movie Lara ends it by buying two guns with a smile on her face cause she just can't wait to back to killing...

And for the thing that bugged me most, the fact that Richard Croft not only did most of the actual plot advancement, as Lara finding Yamatai was due to her following in her father's footsteps and her stopping Mathias was because he told her to, is the fact that Richard also took all of Sam's contributions from the first game. Lara learning about Yamatai and wanting to find it was due to her father, the emotional core is now the relationship between Lara and Richard and to be perfectly honest, their relationship just isn't as good as Lara and Sam's. OR Lara and her father in the games.

The film is obviously trying to emulate Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade but the relationship between Lara and Richard lacks the same level of charm and endearment that Indy and Henry did. The Last Crusade was the story of a father and son reconnecting after years of being cut off, emotionally, from one another. TR movie 2018 the relationship between Richard and Lara is barely focused on with most of the screen time being just Lara in a series of action scenes with no real growth.

The resent games are not just a series of action scenes we got a chance to get to know the crew of the Endurance and while most of them my may not have had much in the way of character development you still wanted to see Lara save them so when some of them died you felt how hard it hit Lara. Here's actually a fun fact that I've noted several times Sam was originally suppose to die but test players hated that ending so much because they had gotten attached to her and her relationship with Lara that the ending was changed.

As this very wiki page notes Richard dies at the end of this movie and in my theater, no one had any notable reaction, no one way in tears no one cared. This film, for me, is just spectacle with no real substance and I am willing to bet that it will be quickly forgotten about in one month as this film doesn't have anything going for it.

Again this is just my opinion and you are free to disagree with me but I say that this film is on par with the Mortal Kombat movie, if not a bit lower and I give it a 4 out of 10.