TOMB RAIDER
* * (two stars) Directed by: Simon West Starring: Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight Rated: PG-13
  Nothing rounds out the summer movie scene better than the requisite video game/comic book/fairy tale genre film, and luckily the summer of 2001 hasn't disappointed. Looking to cash in on "Tomb Raider", the wildly successful PC game, Angelina Jolie and her real life father Jon Voight lead expeditions across the globe in searchof tomb treasure.

So here is all you need to know: Angelina Jolie is hot in this movie...scorching. Lara Croft (Jolie) and her main adversary Larson(played with a bit of evil by Mark Collie) attempt to locate missing pieces of a giant universe controlling puzzle. Its too complicated to ex-plain, just anticipate looking for two pieces of a magestic triangle, which happen to be located at opposite ends of the world guarded by mystical powers and other crazy shit. Yeah, the plot is predictable and not very deep, but what did you expect from a video game movie.

For anybody looking for a blowing up crap, no-brainer movie on a rainy night this summer, this movie is clutch. Impending video rentals will not do the crazy fight scenes or special effects any justice.

Probably the most disappointing part of this movie is Voight, who sucks as Lord Croft, the deceased father of Lara Croft. In flashback scenes and etheral meetings with his daughter, Voight is preachy, too "fatherlike" and altogerther brings a nice uneasy sense to the scenes. The only thing more disappinting was the absence of Billy Bob Thornton, `cause then we could have had a Jolie/Voight family reunion all in one movie

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