He’s actually very charismatic and talented, but was given a boring character that virtually does nothing every time he’s on screen. Where do I even begin? Daniel Wu is presumably just put in a Asian supporting character just because the Chinese market demands it, but he deserved so much better than Lu Ren. Seriously? Run? I expected a much more finesse in expressing her resourceful and feisty side of her character, but no…Īlthough the first half of the movie is a little bid subdued and calm (as opposed to the second, more action filled half) traces of generic, bland and uninspiring supporting characters can be found from the start until the very end of the movie. Secondly… When she arrives in Hong Kong, not only will she be mugged and threatened at a knife point, here response to that will be to run and ask for help. She will forfeit a boxing game in the opening scene, just to avoid being choked to death by her opponent (who is also a woman). Yes… Alicia is very decent in this role, but i had problems with the role itself. I’m perfectly aware that this is a reboot and a movie with an origin story built in, but there is not that much of a hint of that courageous, bad ass, sassy Lara that I saw in the previous 2 films (with Angelina Jolie) and even in the video game.įirst of all…. How scared and very much different this Lara is. Oh and we have a younger and „poorer“ Lara who works as a bike messenger to make ends meet, but one thing bugged me about this particular character. Both in term of casting of the lead heroine, and the mystical themes in the subplot, but also in the setting. I can see the effort to stay true to the game in this movie. What will find there will be more frightening than Walton Goggins’s Mathias Vogel character, but I’m going to get to that later. You know… To try and find her father at his last known destination. She then heads out to Hong Kong to look for the drunken but experienced ship captain Lu Ren (Daniel Wu) and they both set sails to the island of Yamatai in the Devil’s Sea. She’s an heiress to a vast fortune but refuses to touch even a cent from it, because that would mean that she will have to admit her father Richard Croft (Dominic West) is dead, and not just missing. The Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander is the much younger, inexperienced bike messenger turned explorer Lara. Even much more than I anticipated, to be quite frank. Courtesy of my bae, I actually enjoyed playing it. Now with Alicia Vikander in the role of Lara Croft, the latest film version of the acclaimed game is different to say the least.Īnd order not to seem uneducated and half baked in my reviews, last night I actually started playing the most recent Tomb Raider video game. The long awaited and much anticipated Tomb Raider reboot.
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