Good action, mediocre plot

Alana 2022-03-16 09:01:03

When Tomb Raider first came out, I was still working at Tianjin University. I remember watching this film at the time in the dormitory, with several people huddled together and staring at the gun version of the video on the computer screen. The video effect is extremely poor, especially when it comes to the action scenes, you can't see anything clearly, and the focus of this film is the action scenes. So, I wasn't impressed with this movie, but the scene of watching the movie stayed in my memory.

Last Saturday night, CCTV Movie Channel's "Best Films Have an Appointment" released this film, so I saw the clear version, which was translated from China. After watching it, I felt that the movie was very ordinary. The first is that the story lacks the necessary rational push. Laura pursued that clock's guidance so hard to meet her father, the villains are doing it for nefarious purposes, but how did the clock come about? Why is it closely related to Jiuxingrenzhu? The video doesn't tell us the answer. Why is the villain so clear about where to realize the value of the clock? I didn't see it either. Sorry, maybe it was introduced in the movie, I fell asleep and missed it. However, the villain also has things he doesn't know, and he needs Laura to tell him, so how does Laura know? Oh, through her father's diary. How did her father know? God knows.

By the way, I forgot that this is a movie based on a game, and some background knowledge needs to be answered in the game. It can be seen from this poster that Julie's shape is obviously deliberately imitating the image of Laura in the game, and even Julie's face on the poster is obviously processed to look more like Laura. And I remember, when it came to who played Laura, the biggest concern was who could have Laura's big breasts. It can also be seen from the poster that this point of Julie is also deliberately highlighted. There are various indications that the audience of this film is very clearly aimed at tomb players. And as long as the image of Lara in the movie passes the test, game fans will accept half of it. But for potential viewers like me who haven't played Tomb Raider, or who have played a little but don't know much, aren't the producers going to make money from these people?

It's worth watching the action scenes, especially the scene where the special forces rush into Laura's house to grab the clock. Although Laura had nothing to do with a rope and bungee jumped in the house a bit too pretentious, but the scene was really thoughtful and beautiful, and the music was well matched. The fight with the Buddha statue in the Cambodian temple was a little worse, too frivolous, and not at all nervous and exciting. Moreover, the filming of Buddhism is too murderous, which makes people uncomfortable.

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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider quotes

  • Bryce: [taking screws out of clock to open it] ... screw 13 to quadrant 3, screw 14 to quadrant 4...

    Hilary: [sighs and rolls eyes] Please.

    Bryce: It's my system! So I know where they all came from!

    Lara Croft: It's camouflage.

    [takes hammer and smashes the clock to pieces]

    Bryce: [wincing] Okay.

  • Lara Croft: But time was stolen from us and it's not fair.

    Lord Richard Croft: No, it's not fair.