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Metascore
43 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 34 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 107 Ratings

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  • Starring: Angelina Jolie, Chris Barrie, Gerard Butler
  • Summary: Demonstrating her physical prowess and revealing her courage as never before, Lara Croft proves that she will stop at nothing in her search for an infamous site know as "The Cradle of Life" -- especially when it means she could save the world from the most unspeakable evil ever known. (Paramount)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 34
  3. Negative: 7 out of 34
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    In a summer where the special effects in movies have grown steadily more repetitive and dreary, "LCTR:TCOL" uses imagination and exciting locations to give the movie the same kind of pulp adventure feeling we get from the Indiana Jones movies.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    60
    Enough goodwill has been built up in the early sections that most viewers will not take offense when the movie abandons its plot and characters.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    38
    Competent in the extreme, the talented Jolie would make a great Jane Bond. But mired in this joyless orgy of preposterousness, her biggest challenge is simply keeping a straight face.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 84
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 84
  3. Negative: 12 out of 84
  1. JaredC.
    10
    Way more than the first, it actually has acting, action, fantasy, one of the years best.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. christians
    4
    A disappointment that has a terrible conclusion and a flimsy script. the first is better.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. grandpajoe6191
    3
    Man, why won't people know that game-adapted movies don't have the capacity to become equal as those from the pure brain? "The Cradle of Life" is a very appropriate example and solution for my statement. Its terrible, worse than the prequel. Avoid the movie and watch something alse.… Expand
    • 3 of 3 users said yes

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