![]() ![]() 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. 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. 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. ![]() ![]() 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. After twice visiting Cambodia, while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) then on a UNHCR field mission, Jolie returned in November 2001, with her husband. 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. Sign up for as much as you can, give yourself a few months, push yourself to the limit and see, ‘What can I do?’ And you find that there’s a lot you didn’t know and some crazy, weird things you can do or you’re capable of, so I love it.Elsewhere, the dialogue remains stuck in the 90s. And I would encourage anybody to do that. But they said you can travel the world and train with the British Military and so I had three months of seeing what I could do. “I said, ‘I really didn’t feel like that character suited me.’ I actually didn’t at first want to do it I said no. While it wasn’t a surprise to hear Jolie credit that realization to the 2001 Tomb Raider movie, it was a surprise to hear that, initially, she wasn’t sure if she wanted to do the movie at all. With Those Who Wish Me Dead now available to watch on HBO Max, I got the opportunity to chat with Jolie about the film and opted to look back on when she first recognized the value of doing her own stuntwork. Needless to say, this is a role that came with a good deal of stuntwork, stunts like jumping off a 60-foot tall fire tower. grande Resolution image titled Angelina Jolie Guns Tomb Raider Lara Croft Desert Eagle Lara Croft Tomb Raider Angelina Jolie set to 1440x900 e compartilhado. ![]()
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