Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

But...where's the cradle of life? Shouldn't they have called it Discovery of Pandora's Box or something? The box itself is hardly in the movie, for that matter!

I liked the first Lara Croft movie, but I found this sequel awful on the most part. Angelina Jolie is great at the stunts, the stunts by the way were fine and actually one of the three redeeming qualities to this, but her acting was below par, lacking warmth and charisma. Another redeeming quality is some of the locations. Ciaran Hinds hams it up, a term I try to avoid using, as the villain, Doctor Jonathan Reiss, and one of the better actors in the movie, he was pretty entertaining, despite his senseless dialogue. Gerard Butler and Jon Voight have little to do, and came across as useless. The script was largely unfunny and lacked conviction, and the plot, about the search for Pandora's Box, makes little sense mostly. All in all, not absolutely abysmal, and may be entertaining for die hard fans, but this sequel for me was a misfire. 3/10 Bethany Cox

Lara is back on the trail of the bad guys! This time, with a little help from an old "friend," she's trying to protect the legendary Pandora's box from falling into to hands of the bad guys. This film has it all! Mystery, suspense, adventure/action, and a little bit of romance thrown in, too! Jolie has outdone herself in this movie. I really never got into the last Tomb Raider film, but this one doesn't let you go! If there ever was a film that does NOT quit moving, this is it!

Lara: We are getting closer to the Cradle of Life. Guide (amazed): How do you know? Lara: I feel it in the crystal! The only trouble is that the guide is taking her to the Cradle of Life, and that's what happens when you go somewhere. You get closer to the place you are going. Did the guide think that without a crystal, when you go somewhere you get further away? Dumb, dumb movie.

An entertaining movie, but some stuff should have been redone or just cut out to keep the pace of the movie going I was prepared to walk out of the theatre when she punched the shark, honestly...that isn't even video game material. While like the first one, the plot is a bit thin and kind of milked out to keep it going...as most people would have guessed, the main area of interest lies within Angelina Jolie herself, she is much sexier in this film than the last. This film is nothing special, I'd say more matured than the first one, but it's fun to watch while kickin back and eating pizza or something. 3 out of 5 stars

The special effects are spectacular but, in many cases, way over the top. Special effects have to have some modicum of "it might be possible to do this". If not, it becomes Star Wars, or worse. The Story line is totally impossible and incoherent. It jumps from one location to the next without reason or rhyme. A film that should have gone straight to the video rental stores. This is not even a B-movie.