The two fight until they’ve destroyed all of the ancient artifacts in the tomb, then Lara disables the robot by yanking out some cables, ejecting the “Kill Lara Croft” disk in the tiny computer in its chest, and plugging in a disk called “Lara’s Party Mix”. We’re two minutes into the movie, and Lara Croft is already besieged by a rejected design for General Grievous. As Lara carefully makes her way towards a gem bathing in a sunbeam, she’s suddenly attacked by a ten-foot robot with four arms.

Tomb Raider begins, appropriately, in a generic Egyptian tomb. If you haven't seen Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, or if you haven’t seen it since you were a kid, get ready for a wild ride. It feels like a fever dream today, yet it remains among the top ten most profitable movies based on video games of all time. Tomb Raider expected people to know about the game it was based on and it didn’t make any apologies for being a video game movie - despite the fact that it was one of the first blockbuster video game movies ever made. It makes no effort to explain itself or contextualize a single thing that happens in it. The logical leaps you have to make in order to keep up with this (barely held together) plot go far beyond what anyone would consider reasonable or decent in 2021. In honor of TheGamer’s ongoing Tomb Raider Week, I watched Lara Croft: Tomb Raider again for the first time in at least a decade, and I can not believe how wacky and wonderful this movie is. I watched it when I was a kid, and I remember certain parts of it like the shower scene and how crusty Daniel Craig looks. Angelina Jolie’s Tomb Raider is 20 years old.

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