Interestingly, Angelina Jolie had similar views about Tomb Raider as in an interview shared, “I wasn’t satisfied with it. I felt like a bit of a spare p**** at a wedding throughout.” He jokingly concluded, “I probably looked like one too.” “But personally I should never have said yes. Like a relic in the sand, crying out to be uncovered again, you can't help but look back at her time as Lara and ask if the film itself is genuinely good, or that we were watching a stratospheric rise from one of Hollywood's most revered stars bringing an otherwise strong enough but unremarkable action/adventure yarn up with her.The 55-year-old actor further shared, “ Angie had it worse, she was in every scene and had to take all the s**t afterwards.”Īt the time, the Knives Out actor also claimed that he regretted agreeing to do the film at altogether. Tomb Raider, like it or not, catapulted her to a mainstream status that she arguably hasn't managed to achieve since. Instead, it gave her the opportunity to kick the crap out of evil male goons, and be the only woman on screen and in every scene.
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Having come off a run of critically rich returns in Gia and Girl, Interrupted (where she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar), Jolie was coming up fast as an artistic and critical darling, and a video game movie could have been career suicide.
Angelina Jolie was not a name brand Hollywood A-lister then. Looking back on Tomb Raider now is akin to peeking through a magnifying glass to a very particular moment in time.
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In what is a lifetime for cinema, the series would be rebooted 14 years later in 2018 with a very solid outing starring Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft. These two movies would pitch its heroine up against entirely male odds and present her as the toughest and smartest character in the room (like Craig, future leading man Gerard Butler featured in the sequel as the love interest), and it's bizarre that they've been forgotten as such. In 2004 (a year after Tomb Raider's sequel was released) Esquire would name her The Sexiest Woman Alive, arguably something she wouldn't have been considered for if she had not been fronting her own action movie series with a kick-ass quasi-feminist angle. Related: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Experience Was So Bad, It Made Jan de Bont Quit Directing With an even poorer critical response and fairly weak ticket returns ($160 million on a nearly $100 million budget), Jolie said she was finished with playing the character. Lara returned for a sequel, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, which was a sadly bland variation on a theme, unfocused in its jet-setting locations this time around, a film which waits until its last few scenes to get weird. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider did well at the box office in 2001, bringing in over $274 million on the back of a $115 million budget and cementing Jolie as a star the world over. Arguably with this Tomb Raider and Layer Cake three years after, Barbara Broccoli and MGM would have seen both sides of the actor's abilities (all jumps and kicks in a popcorn film, then important dialogue scenes in the low-budget English sector) as an audition tape for his first outing as Bond in Casino Royale in 2006.
It's cool to see Craig so plucky and his body so wiry before he bulked up for Bond. With some dialogue coming from a veritable who's-who of British actors, including Chris Barrie (Rimmer from Red Dwarf) and Noah Taylor (Hitler in Preacher), it's surprising how un-genuine the Englishness of the characters comes off here, with just one too many on the nose "Buggers!" and "Bloody Hells!" deflating scenes of otherwise wonderful action.Īs an aside, it's interesting to see a pre-007 Daniel Craig here as Lara's competition. The matey chat between the lead and her supporting cast feels forced, and reminds one of the bantery dialogue that said Marvel movies have become infamous for. Elsewhere, the dialogue remains stuck in the 90s.
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