8 Awful Video Game Movies That Got The Most Important Thing Right
3. Tomb Raider - The Glorious Set Pieces
Labelling 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider as awful may be a tad harsh, but this movie was far from being anywhere close to good. Then, again, box office dollars were strong enough that a sequel would, of course, happen.
In that first Tomb Raider movie, audiences were given a minuscule plot, some ludicrous and cheesy moments, and a Daniel Craig performance that we bet most of you had forgotten all about. But in amongst the lesser elements of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, some of the major bright spots were the set pieces and action sequences utilised in the movie.
The scale and imagination of some of the film's more energy-pumping scenes felt genuinely as if they’d been pulled directly from the Tomb Raider source material, and served to give franchise fans the sort of intense and clever action that they’d become familiar with throughout the gaming franchise itself.
Oh, and one other thing that Tomb Raider clearly got right for the horned-up teenage gamers of the time, was the casting of Angelina Jolie and the fact that the film largely kept Lara true to her worryingly skimpy gaming outfits.