Talk:Tomb Raider (2018 Movie)/@comment-2038153-20170920184802

While the film has yet to be released from what I have seen of the trailers the film has already failed due to one simple fact, they have removed Lara's own agency in the story.

In A Survivor is Born the reason they were heading into the Dragon's Triangle was because Lara believed that was where Yamatai was and that fallowing in other people footsteps was a waste of time as none of them found Yamatai. In the movie from what little I can gather finding Yamatai or whatever they're going to call the new location, is a result of fallowing her father's research and not her own.

Also, be removing Sam, Roth and the rest of Lara's friends that means Lara is not going through Hell in order to save them from her mistake. That was the main driving force behind Lara's actions and helped get players invested in the game. But because they removed her friends from the movie they had to give Lara some other motivation to do what she is doing and that was her fallowing her father's instructions to destroy the MacGuffin on the island.

Now in Rise of the Tomb Raider Lara finding the Prophet's Tomb was a result of her fallowing her father's work and she was trying to find the Divine Source in order to vindicate him in eyes of the public. However, a key detail missing is that Lara was doing so in a way to forgive herself for not believing him After what she witnessed on Yamatai. She'd seen proof of the supernatural and now realized her father was right and that she needed to prove him right.

Also at the end of Rise Lara destroying the Divine Source was her choice. No one told her to do it, no one really suggested it, she did it because it was the right thing to do in order to protect humanity as she had seen first hand how having the Divine Source ruined the lives of Jacob's people.

And her pushing onward to find the Divine Source was still her idea as everyone else told her that looking for it was a bad idea and her father NEVER gave her any instructions to look for it.

Lara's motivation's in the movie seem to be completely undefined at best, or doing it just because the plot demands it at worse. This is why so many video game movies fail, because the people making it make unnecessary changes for no real reason other then they can or because they think that they can do a better job and that video games are below them.