New Tomb Raider reveal tomorrow – It’s Shadow of The Tomb Raider

2001 was a unusual time for the blockbuster.

The reboot of “Tomb Raider” has Alicia Vikander play a young Lara Croft, in a coming-of-age adventure.

So, 16 years later: Does it hold up?

The release of Shadow of the Tomb Raider would mark the third instalment in the rebooted gaming franchise. Let’s give her all the hurdles possible.

The return of dual pistols.

Tomb Raider also stars Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hannah John-Kamen, Antonio Aakeel, Derek Jacobi, and Nick Frost.

Still, there are worse ways to spend two hours.

From Warner Bros. Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, “Tomb Raider” is the story that will set a young and resolute Lara Croft on a path toward becoming a global hero. The Triangle of Light allows its wielder to mess with the flow of time.

Financial Times: If I see this silly woman clambering through jungles once more – formerly Angelina Jolie, she is now Alicia Vikander – I’ll go stark, napalm-wielding mad.

Where would you say Lara Croft starts from, internally?

But an evil order known as Trinity followed his progress, and through a voice recording, Croft’s father asks her to destroy all evidence of the tomb.

Ultimately, “Tomb Raider” offers some decent scenery – the film was shot largely in and around Cape Town, South Africa – but not much more.

In terms of craftsmanship, Tomb Raider mostly succeeds in giving the franchise a grittier makeover.

Stand upwind, folks: the first unforgivable stinker of 2018 has landed with a big plop and an unlovely hiss. “But after a pacy early scene in which courier Lara leads a wild bike chase through East London, the action reverts to the tried-and-true as the narrative focuses once again on tomb raiding, ruthless mercenaries, mad races through the jungle, much hanging from precipices, secret chambers being penetrated and dormant curses being unleashed after two thousand years”. “I think [the game developers] did brilliant work in bringing Lara Croft to a more contemporary setting”, director Roar Uthaug told io9.

“C’mon, I’m not so flat-chested to begin with”. But I didn’t look at it that way. So it wasn’t like we had to completely change me. I knew we wouldn’t be able to redo that, and that’s not what we’re trying to do either.

VIKANDER: Yes, I have seen her in that role. She’s been with us for 22 years. But no, I am not flat chested anyway. This scene doesn’t set up any big crossovers or tie-ins but instead is simply a nice easter egg for fans of the game series. Today, it seems we’ve learned our first details of Lara Croft’s next journey thanks to the game’s website.

Those who own the original DOS versions of the “Tomb Raider” games on Steam will get the remastered versions for free.

“In the end, it’s an enjoyable, but forgettable, action movie that feels more like the training stage of one of the games rather than a complete experience”.

It’s been said before here at Shacknews that there are pitfalls to creating modern video game movie adaptations.

Following the disappearance of her father, Lara (Alicia Vikander) grows up disillusioned with life; she turns to boxing for comfort.

Until now, of course.

The page source seems to reveal both the release date and name of the next game in the Tomb Raider series.

In terms of acting, everyone is pretty good, but especially Alicia Vikander as Lara and Daniel Wu as Lu Ren.