Lara must find an ancient relic which contains the power to manipulate time itself.

Whoa! This movie RULED!

THE SFX ROCKED!
GREAT STORY...LOOKED LIKE THE GAME!

The best dramatic part is when Lara is in a "Nexus" seeing her father.

Great scenes:

*Lara in the shower
*Lara exposing her bare back and half of her left breast when leaving the shower
*Lara in the karate outfit suspended by bungee cords doing sumersaults.
*Lara's escape from the temple...her hair wasn't the only thing that was bouncing

'scuse me...I need to take a cold shower.

John A. Lang

I've got two words to say to you.

DOWN BOY!

Yeah this movie was very cool. While i was watching it i knew that every teenage boy, and every other make on this earth was getting hie fantasies fulfilled.

Still Laura rocks becasue she can kick some butt.

I'm sorry

Every other male on this earth was getting his fantsties fullfilled.

I really to learn how to type.

Ok you perverts... let's get down to the nitpickin...

Lara gets woken up by a ticking clock... a clock that is halfway across the mansion, behind a wall, in a locked box stuffed with straw?

Also interesting that she knew where that light switch was after finding the hidden room, not to mention that the light still worked after all this time. Heh.. time... I made a funny.

Also one that bugs me near the climax... Bad dude throws a knife toward Mr Red Shirt. Lara stops time during mid-throw and turns the knife around and re-starts time and Bad dude gets knifed? Why would turning the knife around alter the direction that it was thrown? Shouldn't it continue on it's current trajectory only backwards?


Also how come she could talk to her father but not touch him?

About the knife nit... I guess if you can play around with time, most of the other laws of physics go out the window as well.

So, why did the regular clock start ticking? Was it because of the key inside?

When the terrorist hanging from a rope fires the machine gun, he remains still. Shouldn't the recoil cause him to move?

Before the Final Confrontation (TM) in the end both Lara and Mr. Bad Guy (can't remember his name) put down their guns on the ground. When the fight is over Lara gets the clock and immediately runs towards the exit. Now her guns is back in their place.

This was a truly awesome movie and it made me realize how much I've missed a true adventure movie.

John A. Lang, if you really want to see all of Angelina totally nekkid, then rent her HBO film, Gia, if it's available as a rental. She plays a real life supermodel who got into drugs and contracted AIDS and died from it, so towards the end she starts looking really bad (but don't worry, it's just makeup).

I really to learn how to type.
Yes, and you can start by not forgetting words in your sentences.

Regarding the knife nit...

Forget about whether turning the knife around would alter its trajectory. Let's ask the more important question: Why on Earth would she grab it BY THE BLADE and not the handle!?! I know it was supposed to look cool, but come on!

And then Lara spends the entire movie not really knowing what this artifact does. Then suddenly at the end she's saying things like "It's a time storm." Suddenly she's an authority. "I know what to do!" Huh? How? When did she learn all this stuff?

And not so much a nit, but an observation about the screenwriters' ineptitude at characterizations: Did anyone really care what happened to that guy who got knifed? He was a jerk the entire movie. Then suddenly I'm supposed to care about the fact that he's about to die?

And back to the big nit... If Lara's father didn't want this thing to fall into the wrong hands... Why on Earth would he make it so accessible? Why not destroy the clock? Why tell Lara anything about it (as the bad guys only discovered things because Lara did)? And if he needed to tell his daughter about it, why make it so difficult for her to find the answers (hiding a note in the lining of an old book). We're talking about the fate of the world and Lara's dad has her playing a scavenger hunt.

And in case anyone hasn't figured it out, I hated this movie. Angelina Jolie was the only good casting in the movie. I could have cared less about anybody else. And I have never seen a father and daughter have less chemistry than these two.

The movie took itself way too seriously for my tastes.

::::I have never seen a father and daughter have less chenistry than these two.

I find that very ironic since Angelina Jolie and Jon Voight are real life father and daughter.

MarkN
I'm sorry about my typing. Sometimes my mind just works faster than my hands can keep up with.

This movie is now on DVD. I got it.
Hands off, she's mine!

I'm sorry about my typing. Sometimes my mind just works faster than my hands can keep up with. - Meg

Same with me. My mind is always working faster, and I often leave out entire "complete thoughts", meaning my post ends up losing all coherence.

Sorry to keep up the slightly superficial line of this board, but is it me, or does Lara's chest get smaller when she's wearing the orange outfit at the Buddhist temple? I'm betting Ms. Jolie is wearing a little bit of padding in the other scenes.

Unlike the games in the movie her pistols are Heckler and Koch USPs.

Jolie said that she is a C cup, while Lara in the game is DD cup. For this movie she wore a padded bra that made her a D cup (splitting the difference between C & DD). Presumably in that scene is was all Angie with no help.

shes a C? dang I love the alphabit!

How did they hide Angelina's "Billy Bob" tattoo, which I think is in her left arm? In the "Making Of" featurette that ran before this pic's pay-cable premiere on Showtime the other night, the tattoo was very visible during her training.
With Billy Bob Thornton's track record on wives (I think Angelina Jolie is his fifth) Angelina will be available sooner rather than later.

They must've CGI'd the tattoo out.

On the DVD commentary director Simon West talks about them having to constantly touch up make-up that covered her Tattoos. The single hardest scene for that was the shower scene, of course.

Yeah, that was a hard scene for me too.

Must have been hell to film as well. West said that most of what they shot was unusuable because too much of her nudity was showing. Filming Angelena Joli's naked body is a dirty job but someone's got to do it.

I read years ago that Persis Khambatta was supposed to do the sonic shower scene in "ST-TMP" nude, but she objected. She compromised with a body stocking.
How many tattoos does Angelina Jolie have, anyway? Her "Billy Bob" one is very visible; I assume there are others. (I have not seen the DVD, and the subject was not dealt with in the "Making Of" featurette.) The makeup men did a good job of hiding "Billy Bob", but to me, she seemed to be photographed a lot from her right side, avoiding the tattoo altogether.
Tattoos are very hard to remove, even with laser surgery, and there is almost always a scar remaining after removal.
Most of the nudity was unusable, as they were no doubt aiming for the "PG-13" rating. Maybe we should demand a "Special Edition" DVD.

According to the IMDB:

Has the letter 'H' tattooed on the inside of her left wrist, which is a reference to two people she is close to who have this letter in their names: her brother, James Haven, and Timothy Hutton. She got the tattoo when she was dating Timothy but since their break up she now says it's only for James.

Has a tattoo of the Tennesee Williams quote, "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages", on her left forearm.

Tattoos include the Japanese sign for death, two pointy black American Indian symbols, a dragon, and a large black cross.

Has the Latin phrase "Quod me nutrit me destruit" ("What nourishes me also destroys me") tattooed across her stomach.

Wow, what a bright, optimistic, chipper young woman she is.

ATTENTION. ATTENTION: Angelina and Billy Bob have hit Splitsville. This was in today's New York Daily News. Gentlemen, start your engines.

And in other news, teenage boys across the country rejoiced.

Saw some of it again yesterday, and spotted a possible prop problem. During the battle in the Croft mansion when Lara throws one of the commandos into a couple of others it looks like one's gun bends, indicating a rubber prop.

I like what my friend said...

To say it was a bad movie is an insult to bad movies everywhere. I would rather repeatedly slam my testicles in a sliding glass door than see that horrible movie again. I would rather be forced to listen to Fran Drescher screaming out the song "Rock Me Amadeus" than come within earshot on of one line of that "film".
There are few things in this world that could cause as much pain as was caused by the realization that I paid $3.50 to rent that festering pile of rancid donkey ••••.

Then, upon hearing they made a freakin' sequel to that first abomination, I had to be admitted into the hospital. There were two reason for my hospital stay: 1) upon seeing the beginning of the trailer, I went into cardiac arrest and 2) in the resulting ambulance ride I was trying to use any means necessary to kill myself so that I wouldn't have to see another trailer for it. Hell or an eternity in limbo would be more pleasurable.
I attend therapy session regularly in order to remove the damage caused by the first film.
In fact, many psychiatrists are able to make their living based solely on TRAD sufferers (Tomb Raider Attendee Disorder).

If you haven't seen it, you are one of the lucky ones. I urge you: avoid it at all costs.
Although I hear the number of TRAD sufferers are on a steady decline.

They are, however, being replaced GID sufferers (Gigli Induced Dysfunction). •••• you J-Lo. •••• you to hell.

Ummm I happen to own the DVD of this movie as I liked it really really much and thought it was very cool. I also have the soundtrack and list4en to it at work. It sounds realy cool on the ram 1500 laramie soundsystem. I cant wait for the SRt-10 ram to come out. I doubt we'll get to play with them though.