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75So monumentally silly, yet so wondrous to look at, that only a churl could find fault.
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70She's (Jolie) the most amazing special effect in movies. The best thing in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is a bungee-jumping ballet that Lara performs late at night in her mansion, soaring high and low in Japanese silk pajamas and with her hair pulled tightly back.
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70Rather than the mad, kinetic video-game vigor you'd expect, the movie proceeds at a more leisurely and methodical gait. I rather liked that.
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63As cumbersome as most films in this subgenre, Angelina Jolie makes it watchable.
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60Unafraid to look absurd but lacks the self-conviction needed to come off as camp.
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50The relevant question is: does it rock? And the answer, unfortunately, is no.
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50Has all the appeal of a video game without the joystick. All you can do is watch. It's noisy and moves fast, but if you can't play, why pay?
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50A by-the-numbers extravanganza that journeys from London to Venice to Siberia to Cambodia without ever really going anywhere.
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50If only the story that surrounds this watchable heroine were as well-stacked.
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50There's no clear plot, no memorable villains, no real logic. But there sure is action.
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50I realize fantasy-based action movies aren't supposed to be as complex as William Gibson's novels. But do they have to be this simple-minded?
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50It's all about action and ogling -- Jolie's boobs, butt and thighs get so much screen time they deserve their own credits.
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50This is just cut-rate, generic daughter of Indy Jones hokum.
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50Ultimately, Jolie's efforts to establish a character are dashed against the film's increasingly inane dialogue.
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50Couldn’t have arrived at a better time: movies have been so bad lately that audiences are positively starving for something mediocre.
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42The opportunity to give Jolie the room to swagger like the "Charlie's Angels" or "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" ladies is utterly squandered, and a video game franchise that might've resulted in a hoot of a film -- has been blown to dust.
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40Game boys and girls will be disappointed by this fast-paced but shockingly dull adaptation.
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40She's not a real person, in any way, shape or form -- which makes watching Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, the first in a projected series of live-action films based around her exploits, a visually spectacular yet oddly cheerless experience.
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30Such an inept bundle of work -- crying out for the filmmaking equivalent of Ritalin, but still sluggish as syrup -- that it doesn't even provide an opportunity to ogle properly.
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30Slick-dick director Simon West, of "Con Air" and "The General's Daughter" infamy, continues to show no flair at all for blending action and character. Jolie and Lara deserved better. So did we.
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30Sitting through the lavish and dumb action spectacular Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is about as much fun as watching someone else play a video game.
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30Has the distinction of being a major motion picture that's far less imaginative, and quite a bit more stupid, than the interactive game it's based on.
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25A staggeringly bad picture: a shallow, cliche-ridden mess that keeps blowing up on screen.
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25The effects are cheesy, the photography is murky, the sets look like leftovers from a Las Vegas stage spectacular -- and the flick appears to have been edited with a roulette wheel.
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25These are good moments, and there are a few others, that prevent Tomb Raider from being one of the worst films of the year. But they're not enough to make it worth seeing.
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25Since the expensive new movie version of the popular video game, Tomb Raider, is very true to its origins, it's a colossal bore.
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20So pandering and pebble-brained you'd guess it had been test-screened on barnyard animals.
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20Almost completely lacking in genuine thrills. Even the attractive presence of star Angelina Jolie can't keep this leaden, plodding, completely underwhelming film from playing like "Lara Croft: Yawn Inducer."
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20Remarkably joyless, even though Ms. Jolie is a formidable presence with the potential for becoming a witty one.
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10It is the perfect modern product: loud, banal, empty, frenzied, plasticized, flavorless, drab, violent in a bloodless way and sexy in a sexless way.
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0The game is great fun -- the movie ought to be taken out back and shot.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 37
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Mixed: 4 out of 37
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Negative: 9 out of 37
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I recommend playing the game rather than watching the movie. It's better.