glennz20 Reviews

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003)

Craptacular

[10 October 2003]

Craptacular is the one and only word to describe this piece of trash movie. I never knew I could hate a film so much, until I saw Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.

After the medicore, but entertaining first Lara Croft movie, comes this just-plain-crap and boring sequel. Half the time during this movie, I found myself staring away from the screen, wondering about other things - it was just totally uninteresting.

A plot you ask? Well, a plot is very non-existant here, save for a recycled story from the first movie. Lara Croft must find the much desired Pandora's Box, along the way teaming up with her old friend, Terry (an incredibly bland Gerard Butler). Sound familiar? It should - we've seen it before.

Bad action scenes, trashy dialogue and enormous plot holes make up 117 minutes of this movie. Was it really that long? It seemed like a lifetime.

Not even the usually fantastic Angelina Jolie can save this film. Avoid at great risk - (* out of ****).

Proof of Life (2000)

Over all,quite a good movie

[2 December 2002]

Proof of life is about a woman named Alice Bowman who is unwillingly living in South America because of her husbands work(Peter Bowman played by David Morse).One morning Alice wakes up to find that her husband has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas and they want a hefty fee for his ransom.Alice then hires Terry Thorne(Russell Crowe at his finest),an ex-soldier and negotiator.Terry's company collapses so Terry and his friend have to work together with Alice to save Peter and time is running out.

There are alot of twists and turns in Proof of Life which is the best thing about this movie.It also has alot of great and not-over-the-top special effects.The start of the movie is very explosive with Terry saving another kidnapped victim.

The reason why i gave this film a 7/10 is because of the acting,story(which stays very entertaining and never becomes too slow and boring) and the special effects and guns!(come on they were cool).Proof of Life didn't get any higher than 7/10(which is still a good rating) because of Meg Ryan and some lame dialogue.Meg Ryan and her sister-in-law in this movie are too over the top and annoying. Ryan should just keep on doing what she does best,which is romantic comedies(lol).She's only OK in this movie.Russell Crowe is just great in this movie.His character and storyline are very interesting.Lame and boring dialogue is another problem in Proof of Life(Alice-Things don't happen for a reason...they just happen).What crap.

So overall,Proof of Life is quite a good movie and I would advise almost everyboDy to see this movie