There is a clear commitment to grounding the narrative here – Lara's motivations are more human and they've all but eliminated the supernatural MacGuffins that drove the Jolie films. This Lara wants nothing to do with her family's moneyed legacy, but when a coded message from her missing, presumed-dead father (Dominic West) sends her to Hong Kong and eventually to a dangerous, uncharted island, she begins to find her inner tomb raider. She's already something of a bad-ass, enjoying MMA training and working as a bike courier in London, but is a long way away from the globetrotting adventurer we know she will eventually become. Taking a significant amount of aesthetic and plot inspiration from the 2013 reboot of the popular game series, we are introduced to a younger, greener Lara Croft (Oscar winner Alicia Vikander). Films adapted from video games have now been around long enough for the first major franchise reboot (Hitman and Street Fighter don't count), and while this new Tomb Raider movie has more honourable intentions than the shallow Angelina Jolie-starring films from 20, it too suffers from the inherent superficiality that tends to plague video-game adaptations.
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