Angelina Jolie. The woman who made this movie worth watching. My, how she is a hot woman, and she uses her looks to pull off the role as Lara Croft well. In fact, she's the best thing in this movie. She is great portraying the character of Lara Croft, giving off a great sense of beauty and grace while showing great masculinity and ferocity in battle. She's a gem to beware and she lets everyone know in the movie. But man, was this disappointing. This has so much flaws that I don't really know where to start. First of all, the plot is very drab compared to the plots from the games. Where are the mercenaries? Where are the spies? Where are the top secret locations? Where are the lions and tigers? Not visible in this movie, I'll tell you that.

For example, The statue scene. Now, if executed well and lengthened to a tolerable degree, this could have been a great scene and killer part. But if fails. The statues are slow and easily eliminated and are only around for a total of a minute and half... or so I estimated. Then, Lara accidentally frees this huge statue who wields four swords. Now I expected a long stomp and smash moment, but we got less. Lara easily exterminates of it, making the scene relatively pointless and dull. It seemed Simon West didn't put much thought into the action. Too bad, because he robs us of seeing a potentially truly great action flick. There were some scenes that made this hokey and corny at times, which made me disconnect from the film. For example, the scene where Lara is riding the dogsled on her feet. That was not only cheesy and hokey, it was also farfetched.

Not a bad movie. But this does end up as an underdone portrayal of a potentially excellent action flick. My opinion, stick to the games for true action, folks.