An elaborate wind-up gizmo pretending to be a film, this sequel to the video-game based LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER is simply a series of set pieces designed to insure Angelina Jolie's status as action-babe pin-up. The busy but utterly inconsequential plot concerns a map engraved on an amber-like orb hidden in the 4th century by Alexander the Great in a long-sunken temple, and the terrible treasure to which it leads: the real Pandora's box, which contains a plague of unprecedented deadliness. Lara loses the orb to Chinese gangsters, and is press-ganged by MI-6 into retrieving it before it falls into the hands of Dr. Jonathan Reiss (Ciaran Hinds), who's in the business of...
Released:
2003
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
110 mins