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Tomb Raider Review

What I liked: This was a lot of fun to watch. The stunts were good the booby traps and puzzles were elaborate. I was having enough fun to not get too concerned about falling 300 feet into a raging river, or the creative parachuting, or the excessive effect of 6 sticks of dynamite, or how everyone was doing pretty well for being shot in the chest, stabbed, breaking all their bones, etc. The plot is pretty similar to Last Crusade with fewer Germans and less Sean Connery. I liked the sidekick he was not useless and seemed reasonably invested in the "let's sail into the most dangerous ocean in the world to find and release the mythical queen of death" plan.

What I didn't: There is a long tradition of people bringing the wrong kind of weaponry to gun fights but an ice axe? really? Why do you even have an ice axe in the tropics? And there are guns lying around and double guns is kind of your trademark. Every time I build a prison tomb to contain the evil queen of death I think about installing elaborate puzzles to unlock it. Then I think, wait, why would I ever want anyone to be able to access this again and relocate the whole thing to a volcano. Admittedly my transportation costs would be high, but I suspect that they would still be lower than the cost of constructing a massive booby trapped tomb. So given that the location of this tomb prison thing is an inaccessible island, I have a few questions 1) how did they supply a 7 year exploratory expedition that apparently goes through several hundred pounds of dynamite a day? not to mention batteries, ammunition, and food? How did they get all the bodies to fill the creepy tomb? I also feel like there could be several other ways of kicking that ladder which might have had a more satisfactory result. Also I feel like these people don't understand incubation times. There could have been more jokes.

Who should watch this? People who like Indiana Jones, people who want a cool adventure flick.

Would I watch it again? Yes
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