a snail would have moved quicker
17 December 2001
At the start of this film Lara is chased by a robot & this set the tone for some really poor special effects & action. She then stays in a big castle for another 25 minutes of the film with 2 dull english gentlemen who were really awful to watch in their scenes.

She decides to leave for cambodia on her quest which was to save the world from some men intent on world domination (that hasn't been done before) and befriends them while there. It amazed me as to how they became friends as the bad guys should know not to trust an adversary.

THe statues in the temple there looked like a poor rip off of Jason & the Argonauts but everything in this film was a rip off. The film though was good at this point but once more shut down for 20 minutes with Lara spending her time talking to monks & her father which was pretty lame stuff.

Lara & her friends? then set off for iceland to complete their quest to the dead zone - that sounded cool but it wasn't. The set in the cave they were in looked like one from a 1993 MacGyver film (Trail to doomsday) and macgyver's set was better than this one. The sheer stupidity of the final sequence in iceland where lara escapes everything just cemented this film as another crap blockbuster which should have been a TV movie. Let's hope that this goes the way of streetfighter & a sequel isn't made. It will save a few highly paid jobs in the process
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