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Lara likes to box instead, good training for the next 120 minutes where Uthaug will take delight in smashing her face against the rocks of fate.Įventually, Tomb Raider throws off the fig leaf of film-making and surrenders completely to its video game origins - it’s to the credit of the film’s superior action-choreography team that the chase still manages to remain thrilling as the story stops making sense. “Sprout” grows up to be a trustafarian bike courier in London, denying her heritage as the fabulously-wealthy scion of the Croft family, run by mysterious consigliore Kirstin Scott-Thomas and doddery lawyer Derek Jacobi. A filthy-rich adventurer of sorts, he has abandoned his young daughter (awkwardly nicknamed “Sprout”) to chase one of cinema’s more ludicrous creations, a mummified Japanese goddess on a remote Asian island who holds the key to life or death. The viewer is introduced to a young Lara via her father, played by Dominic West in a role he’ll probably be keen to forget. It’s what comes in between that’s truly deadly, though. From there, it’s a dramatic CGI-loaded shipwreck, a breathtaking escape from an island prison camp run by rent-a- villain Vogel (Walton Goggins), and on to the titular Tomb Raider maze of challenges they click in like a metronome as Uthaug moves mechanically towards his two-hour running time. A thrilling cycle chase in London is followed by a sampan romp in Aberdeen harbour, Hong Kong (South Africa subbing), where Croft encounters an ally in a drunken sailor played by Wu. You can feel the beats as Uthaug hits his set pieces.

If the production had asked as much of its plot as it does of Vikander and co-star Daniel Wu, the end result might have been a different matter. The boyish Vikander grits her teeth and faces up to the challenges laid down by this ultra-physical approach the force of her conviction is at times enough to get you there. Uthaug, with writers Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Simmons, has stripped away the cheesy genre thrills from Lara Croft, yet failed to replace them with a story. This Tomb Raider arrives into a changed theatrical landscape, hostage to the thrills of Black Panther – against which the daddy issues of this rich single white avatar might look a little dated. Yet Vikander is so watchable as the video-game-made-flesh, and the low-fi chase sequences can be so exciting, it’s almost enough. Norway’s Roar Uthaug ( The Wave) directs it straight up, without even a twist of humour, bouncing Vikander from set piece to set piece with no real attempt at coherent plotting in-between. Vikander conjures up a gutsy heroine out of thin cyberspace. Lara Croft is back, she’s unarmed, and fighting her way through an absurd plot with ferocious fists-of-fury.

Seventeen years after Angelina Jolie first slipped into her singlet, the 2018 Tomb Raider reboot opens with her successor, Alicia Vikander, receiving a solid punch to the face. Production on the Tomb Raider sequel is expected to start in early 2020.Tomb Raider, Daniel Wu and Alicia Vikander

#Tomb raider film de roar uthaug. avec alicia vikander movie#

In his review, GameSpot's Michael Rougeau called it 'a pretty good action movie and a better than average video game adaptation,' citing 'smart story choices and a winning performance from Alicia Vikander.'

#Tomb raider film de roar uthaug. avec alicia vikander series#

Vikander's first outing as the character, which was based on the current video game series made $275 million at the worldwide box office and was met with mixed reviews. Angelina Jolie played the character in 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and its 2003 sequel. This will be the fourth Tomb Raider film, but only the second in this particular incarnation. Naturally, Vikander will be along for the ride reprising her role as Lara Croft. Joining Wheatley on the next movie is screenwriter Amy Jump and producers Graham King and Elizabeth Cantillon. He's stepping in for Roar Uthaug, who directed the previous film but will not be returning.

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