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

Director:

Jan de Bont

Writers (WGA):

Dean Georgaris (screenplay)
Steven E. de Souza (story) ...

Release Date:

25 July 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Thriller

Plot:

Lara Croft is on a quest to save Pandoras box.

Plot Keywords:

Shanghai China | Altered Version Of Studio Logo | Busty Heroine | Prison | One Woman Army

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sun. July 6	11:00 AM	TNT
Mon. July 7	2:25 AM	TNT

Cast

Angelina Jolie	...	Lara Croft
Gerard Butler	...	Terry Sheridan
Ciarán Hinds	...	Jonathan Reiss
Chris Barrie	...	Hillary (as Christopher Barrie)
Noah Taylor	...	Bryce
Djimon Hounsou	...	Kosa
Til Schweiger	...	Sean
Simon Yam	...	Chen Lo
Terence Yin	...	Xien
Daniel Caltagirone	...	Nicholas Petraki
Fabiano Martell	...	Jimmy Petraki
Jonathan Coyne	...	Gus Petraki
Robert Cavanah	...	MI6 Agent Stevens
Ronan Vibert	...	MI6 Agent Calloway
Lenny Juma	...	Village Leader

Also Known As:

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Die Wiege des Lebens (Germany)
Tomb Raider 2 (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for action violence and some sensuality.

Runtime:

117 min

Country:

USA | Germany | Japan | UK | Netherlands

Language:

English | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Malaysia:U | UK:12 (video rating) (2003) | UK:12A (original rating) | Ireland:12 | New Zealand:M | USA:PG-13 (certificate #39956) | Iceland:12 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | Canada:14A | Denmark:11 | Finland:K-15 | Germany:12 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:15 | Spain:7 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:16 (canton of the Grisons)

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

Just as in the first film, there are several scenes in which the live-action Lara mimics the computer game version, in particular a scene in which she climbs around a pagoda and pole-vaults to a helicopter. She also takes a nasty fall as the animated Lara was prone to do.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Lara and Terry are sliding down the rope, Lara's hair is all over the place. The shot cuts to the men shooting down at them then back to Lara and Terry. Lara's ponytail is tied in several elastics. It cuts again to the men above and then back to Lara and her hair is all over again. This happens several times.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Jimmy Petraki: They found another one. There's going to be no treasure left by the time she gets here.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Howard Stern on Demand: J.J. Abrams and the Film Festival Winner" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Tears From the Moon

Mindless fun that just goes

It assumes you've seen the first film and so it just goes....

WOW.

What a fun movie. Mindless Fun of the lets just go sort.

Its nothing great it just is a fun two hours of action and adventure. Frankly it felt like a long ride, but a good long ride, like I've been around the world and then some. This is opposed to the "can't anything exciting happen" of Bad Boys 2 (released about the same time).

If you liked the first mindless film this is better, different, very different its a stripped down machine that goes at top speed to the end, where the first had to introduce characters and tried for a complicated plot.

The villain is evil from the first introduction of the Ebola laced drink to the last gasp before Lara puts him in his rightful place.

The characters are well defined and perfectly realized in the action speaks louder than words sort of way.

As mindless entertainment its a four star romp- it probably should be a star lower but with the bad movies I've seen of late its nice to see a really really good fun movie..