“Sprout” grows up to be a trustafarian bike courier in London, denying her heritage as the fabulously-wealthy scion of the Croft family, run by mysterious consigliore Kirstin Scott-Thomas and doddery lawyer Derek Jacobi. A filthy-rich adventurer of sorts, he has abandoned his young daughter (awkwardly nicknamed “Sprout”) to chase one of cinema’s more ludicrous creations, a mummified Japanese goddess on a remote Asian island who holds the key to life or death. The viewer is introduced to a young Lara via her father, played by Dominic West in a role he’ll probably be keen to forget. It’s what comes in between that’s truly deadly, though. From there, it’s a dramatic CGI-loaded shipwreck, a breathtaking escape from an island prison camp run by rent-a- villain Vogel (Walton Goggins), and on to the titular Tomb Raider maze of challenges they click in like a metronome as Uthaug moves mechanically towards his two-hour running time. A thrilling cycle chase in London is followed by a sampan romp in Aberdeen harbour, Hong Kong (South Africa subbing), where Croft encounters an ally in a drunken sailor played by Wu. You can feel the beats as Uthaug hits his set pieces. If the production had asked as much of its plot as it does of Vikander and co-star Daniel Wu, the end result might have been a different matter. The boyish Vikander grits her teeth and faces up to the challenges laid down by this ultra-physical approach the force of her conviction is at times enough to get you there. Uthaug, with writers Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Simmons, has stripped away the cheesy genre thrills from Lara Croft, yet failed to replace them with a story. This Tomb Raider arrives into a changed theatrical landscape, hostage to the thrills of Black Panther – against which the daddy issues of this rich single white avatar might look a little dated. Yet Vikander is so watchable as the video-game-made-flesh, and the low-fi chase sequences can be so exciting, it’s almost enough. Norway’s Roar Uthaug ( The Wave) directs it straight up, without even a twist of humour, bouncing Vikander from set piece to set piece with no real attempt at coherent plotting in-between. Vikander conjures up a gutsy heroine out of thin cyberspace. Lara Croft is back, she’s unarmed, and fighting her way through an absurd plot with ferocious fists-of-fury. Seventeen years after Angelina Jolie first slipped into her singlet, the 2018 Tomb Raider reboot opens with her successor, Alicia Vikander, receiving a solid punch to the face. “We welcome MGM employees, creators, and talent to Prime Video and Amazon Studios, and we look forward to working together to create even more opportunities to deliver quality storytelling to our customers.Tomb Raider, Daniel Wu and Alicia Vikander “MGM has a nearly century-long legacy of producing exceptional entertainment, and we share their commitment to delivering a broad slate of original films and television shows to a global audience,” Hopkins continued. Highlights from the MGM catalog include “Basic Instinct,” “Legally Blonde,” “Moonstruck,” “Poltergeist,” “Raging Bull,” “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Thelma & Louise,” “Tomb Raider,” and “12 Angry Men.” For TV, the studio produced “Fargo,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and “Vikings.” Per a press statement, senior VP of Prime Video and Amazon Studios Mike Hopkins announced that the “real financial value behind this deal is the treasure trove of in the deep catalog that we plan to reimagine and develop together with MGM’s talented team.”
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The Amazon-MGM deal brought more than 4,000 movies and 17,000 TV shows to Amazon Prime Video, including the IPs of James Bond, Pink Panther, and the “Rocky” franchise, in addition to “Tomb Raider.” One source told the outlet that the bidding war has incited a “feeding frenzy” among studios and streamers. Now, that planned sequel is scrapped, per The Wrap, and Vikander will exit the franchise for yet another reboot in the works. “I think Misha and I have been ready, so it’s kind of in somebody else’s hands, to be honest.” Now it’s kind of politics,” Vikander recently told Entertainment Weekly. “With the MGM and Amazon buyout, I have no clue.
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