10 Most Boring Blockbusters Of All Time

Even at 100 minutes, with a lengthy end credits sequence, there’s a certain heaviness to this videogame adaptation, a feeling of sturm und drang that a big summer movie ought not to have. That’s probably due to the film’s tumultuous production history, which resulted in an interminable (and much longer) first cut whose poor reception reportedly caused director Simon West to leave the project.

Then again, Lara Croft is basically a female Indiana Jones, so no big screen version was ever going to break new ground. It should’ve been exciting, though, but the writing is flat, the direction is lifeless and the supporting cast all look like they’d rather be elsewhere. No movie where Angelina Jolie takes a lot of showers and Daniel Craig is the love interest should be this dispiriting.

Even though the source material doesn’t state that Lara's father is dead, he’s established as such in the movie, so the filmmakers bring him back in the most unbelievable way possible, by having Lara communicate with him during a “crossing” of time and space.

That’s the movie to a tee: it goes about everything in the most painful, convoluted fashion imaginable.

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