Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

[cdybedahl]

Short version of review: Best James Bond movie ever.

So I like movies and TV with kickass babes. It's not like you hadn't guessed, what with the Buffy and Xena fanfic and all the screencaps. I liked Charlie's Angels II: Full Throttle, to a large extent because it had lots of babes and they kicked a reasonable amount of ass. The Cradle of Life only had one babe, but hot damn what a babe, and she kicked truly serious amounts of ass. Even when standing still. I've rarely seen casting as great as Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft. The woman can out-macho a gang of soldiers in full combat gear while standing around in jeans and t-shirt. Add a couple of guns, some awesome acrobatic moves, seriously skin-tight clothes and, well, *drool*. For the next Tomb Raider movie, they can keep everything the same, except I want Lara's tough-as-nails love interest to be played by Renée O'Connor.

Oh, and the plot wasn't nearly as braindead as in the first movie. It almost made sense.

Comments

[nordgren.livejournal.com]

Well, having finally seen the movie I certainly agree on the drooling and on the casting call, if only because we haven't seen Renée O'Connor kick ass for far too long.

But darnit, if they were going to reuse ideas from the first game they could have reused the main villain as well, not just bits of her ideology. Especially since an obvious choice for Natla would be Hudson Leick.