Now if you're a cynic without a heart, I know what you're thinking, 'this is just
more ubiquitous by-the-numbers action fodder, the cinematic equivalent of junkfood, a film
only remarkable in how unremarkable it is, a bubo symptomatic of a society that is all
about the product and not the meaning.'
Well, you're wrong, because as well as having a stunning shot of a Volvo, this film is about…
women.
Of course that isn't incidental, Lara Croft has always been about empowering women – through
the idea that they too can despatch cataract inflicted henchman, with little more than
some goddamn feminine moxy and just a few years of private finishing school.
Based on a videogame that came out in 1996 that has had various outings since then, including
a 2013 game also just named Tomb Raider that this movie is based on, - there really has
never been a better to make this.
Honestly not only is it the best videogame adaptation of all time, even better than that
Werner Herzog adaptation of Doctor Mario starring Willem Defoe, it's probably one of the best
action films ever made.
There's a moment when Lara walks on a very convincing CGI world war two bomber, and it
looks like a video game.
There's a moment when Lara sneaks in to the bad guy's camp, and it feels like a
video game.
But it's not a video game, it's a movie.
Great!
Now some sad people have tried to pick holes in it.
Sad.
Some people have said that the plot, which is seemingly about supernatural such and such,
but really isn't, and the setting and co-stars, are deliberate attempts to appease Red China.
Which is obviously not true, but also so what?
Red China is the biggest capitalist population in then world.
Let's sell them a few Volvos.
Now you may have heard that Dominic West overacts terribly throughout.
Bullshit.
It's McNulty – his English accent is just a good as that of Daphne in Frasier.
Also, attempts to smear Alicia Vikander with backhanded comments about her performance
being 'perfectly fine' but 'not as charismatic as Angelina Jolie' – Angelina Jolie is
a myth created by glossy magazines, there's no such actress.
Do your research.
So, we're coming up to the forty-five minute mark of my review, so to re-iterate, this
is probably one of the best films ever made.
You don't know it isn't.
Thanks for joining me on episode 842 of The Shillmaster review.
Next week I'll be talking about how Solo is the best Star Wars film ever made.
Don't forget to subscribe for your chance to win a Volvo sunroof.
Brah, let's get 400 000 views, or Volvo will take my house.
…best film ever.
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