Daddy Croft apparently left all the mundane money-making details to his financial partner (Scott Thomas), who is only too happy to take care of business.

“The Mother of Death,” long buried on a remote island. She’s the scrappy daughter of Lord Richard Croft (West), who somehow managed to become obscenely wealthy as head of his Croft Holdings business empire while at the same time obsessively searching the Far East for ancient crone Queen Himiko, a.k.a. While there are plenty of ways to relive the misery glory of the classic game, you can now do so without actually downloading the title. Lara Croft needs no introduction by now, but we get one anyway. The original Tomb Raider may not have aged all too well. Did they not learn from last year’s Tom Cruise disaster The Mummy that a plot revolving around reviving an entombed witch is something well short of spellbinding? 2, delivering a weak screenplay that’s laden with verbal and visual clichés and frequently just downright silly. While Uthaug struggles to find his motivation, scripters Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons simply choose Door No.

Is he going in for serious drama, as the casting of Vikander and supporting star Kristin Scott Thomas suggests? Or is he bent on doing just another live-action version of a popular game, as castmates Dominic West, Walton Goggins and Daniel Wu imply with their canned-ham macho characters?

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