Despite the snootiness of movie critics - the film wasn't made for them anyway - this is a surprisingly decent movie. Admittedly, I am a fan of the other two movies starring Jolie (despite their terribleness), but even with my low threshold, this was very good. Gamers will appreciate the nods to the 2013 game, and there is a healthy smattering of puzzles, traps, and supernatural elements. Still... I wish they had played to the 90's games a little more, with the following additions:

Lara saying 'aha' every time she found an artefact.
Lara healing herself with magical medipacks.
Lara saving her progress during the film with the aid of floaty blue diamonds.
Lara having more polygonal (and exaggerated) features.
Lara fighting a T-Rex.
And of course... Lara trapping her butler in the mansion refrigerator!

However, despite those notable omissions, this is a better film than we could have hoped for.

Lame version of what you can experience in computer game.
Seriously though, it's too weak on heroes logic and motivation.
Mostly waste of time unfortunately.

I wish Alicia Vikander had gotten a better movie to be Lara Croft in. Tomb Raider (2018) is so boring.

This movie was terrible, I enjoyed the game but in the game she survives alone and has to adapt. In the movie tho she's surrounded by a group most of the time, she never grows and learns on her own but when the time comes for her to do anything, she naturally can with no trying. I hated the addition of being a bike courier and that she trained mma but only used chokes. Felt like an addition suggested from data pulled from social media or focus group.

Take every standard cliché from all adventure stories (the Indiana Jones trilogy specifically) make any supposedly tense scene's score super loud. Remake a 90's movie & do it just like a 90's movie add a horrible & pointless cgi watersprayed waterfall/crashed old airplane /parachute drop 'action' scene and you have this dullard: 'Tomb raider'

A few annoyances: now I've left the cinema: everything before she goes looking for daddy is a scene to foreshadow, and it feels like it.. Should have had a narrator just tell us her attributes.. Coz... Yawn.

She takes a bow an arrow and simply swished around the work camp,where gun men are constantly watching the slaved workers for any laziness, but only the ship captain friend (who happens to be relaxing at the watercooler part of the slave quarry) she made a day ago sees her!

Walton is a good villan, a change from his 'vice principals' role.

If you're stoned and wanna write an action adventure mystery this is what you and your mates would come up with.

Ive certainly seen worse video game related movies. This is one of those where you can just switch brain off and watch. Enjoyed it and don't see why critics were quite so harsh. Sometimes people need to watch a movie for what it is and not think everything is looking for an Oscar win.

Great background story building up during the entire movie, the new Lara is not a superhero, but she is full of determination and bravery, looking for answers from her past. Physical suffering is very perceptible during all action scenes. Good work!

>"All myths are foundations of reality."

1. Original Version of the game depicted clearly.
2. Every single details was present.
3. Full-on Action.
4. Alicia has played it perfect.

Lara Croft without a tits, story you are not going to believe in, characters you are not gonna care about...
What a beautiful cocktail.

Well, that was boring.

And disappointing. They completely rewrote the videogame's plot and got rid of all the supernatural stuff... which is ok. But at the same time, they failed to provide an alternate explanation for almost everything they still kept from the game. The island being inhabitable (why?), the WWII planes, Himiko, the shipwrecks... In the game, there is an explanation for all of that. In the movie, they just didn't bother. They could have kept the original story, or they could have ditched everything from the game and just make the story they wanted to. Instead, they chose their own story but keeping as many elements from the game as possible. The result is an abomination, it doesn't work.

I hope to see more of Alicia Vikander's Lara, but they reeeeally need to improve the storytelling.

Totally flat movie. There is nothing that surprises or escapes the absolutely foreseeable. Forgettable