Tomb Raider

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.