Angelina Jolie is the next action heroine
wannabe playing a Rambo in skin-tight black
hooker's shorts and matching garter-belt gun
holsters in this cinematic adaptation of the
popular video game. The voluptuous Oscar
winner stars as Lara Croft, a British
archeologist with a don't-mess-with-me
attitude underneath her permanent grin of
confidence; she surfs totem poles, mushes
sled dogs, practices bungee ballet and
battles killer stone monkeys all so a magical
triangle-of-life time machine won't fall into
the hands of a voracious villain (Iain Glenn)
during a full-scale solar eclipse. Action
aficionado Simon West directs this noisy
onslaught of guns and destruction through a
convoluted plot with laugh-out-loud special
effects and stolen scenes from such better
movies as The Fugitive, The
Mummy and even Tarzan.