The film makes a lot of problematic moves, in concept and in execution, and even though entertainment value never truly abates, patience is limited by a lack of substance, and challenged by cheese, conventions and a disjointed, limply dragged out structure. More than anything, the story is superficial, and ridiculous, having a little more dimension than the predecessor's story, with less convolution, but still no real resonance amidst the often lazily inconsequential, thematically overblown plotting whose shortcomings are further stressed by missteps. This film is fun, but it doesn't quite have much as much of the momentum which saved the predecessor, and is sometimes bland, so I suppose you could say that even the entertainment value that can make or break a film like this goes a bit superficialized. Nevertheless, viewers stand to be more familiarized with this conventional story and its basic characters, for the film glosses over exposition and jars between its segments as it progresses through a narrative of broad, but disjointed scope, and yet, the final product still finds time to bloat itself with fat around the edges and aimless meanderings in order to achieve an unreasonable runtime of almost two hours. The overt fluff would be easier to get past if it was mildly original, but as things stand, what freshness there may have been in the predecessor is all but cleansed in this stereotypical action-adventure popcorn piece which hits trope after trope, formulaic set and dialogue piece after formulaic set and dialogue piece, and character type after character type. Man, this movie is unsurprisingly corny, and although the tone is arguably not quite as confused as it was in the predecessor, that just means that there's a little more balance in cheese within the fluffy humor and over-the-top action and storytelling, all backed by trite dialogue and, last, but no least, an overwrought style. It helps that this film is pretty entertaining, whether it be better than its predecessor or not, although that means that this film has stuff to turn people off, as well. Well, I guess Angelina Jolie in a silver cat suit in front of big, bold letters still sells quite a bit, as shocking as that might be. That's right, people, even though the reviews were relatively better, instead of making a whopping $274,703,340, it only made a mere. Well, this film did get better reviews than its actual predecessor, although that just means that people disliked it, rather than flat-out panned it, so, either way, one can understand why so many people were turned off by this film. "Well, rock the cradle of life!" Man, that poster has got Angie Jolie, looking hot in a silver cat suit, with the title in huge, bold, golden letters, which makes this look more like the sequel to "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life", and it doesn't help that the movie is kind of hilarious in its British silliness. Opening the door, Lara enters the ancient Temple of Xian.This time, they took out the colon between "Lara Craft" and "Tomb Raider", like Tomb Raider is the name she married into, so it's only natural that the colon now leads into talk of a cradle. There, with the help of monks, she finds Taleon and goes back to China. She returns to the station, steals the plane and flies to Tibet. Lara finds the liner and finds Seraph on the liner deck. Seraph was transported on the liner "Maria Doria", sunken somewhere near. But the entrance to the Palace is sealed by monks locked in the amulet of Seraph. He says that the door to the temple of Xi'an will open the amulet Taleon, which is kept in the Ice Palace under the monastery. On the platform, Lara escapes from captivity and finds the monk in the near-death state near the submarine diving zone. The plane arrives on the oil platform owned by Bartoli. Lara goes to Venice, he is a secret place mafia and tries to follow Bartoli in the cargo hold of his personal plane, but it stuns one of the bandits. From a conversation with him, Lara discovers the legend of the dagger, as well as the leader of the mafia Venetian Marco Bartoli, who is also a member of the cult of worshiping the power of the Dagger. In 1997, during a routine archaeological raid, Lara Croft discovers tightly locked door, and this time it attacks the rebellious people.
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