Tomb Raider

Director: Roar Uthaug Roar Uthaug

Overview

Lara Croft (Oscar winner Alicia Vikander) investigates the disappearance of her adventurer father (Dominic West) by following him to a mysterious island with the help of Lu Ren (Daniel Wu). After being shipwrecked, she's captured by Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins) and the enigmatic paramilitary organization Trinity, who demand her help in opening a mythical tomb. Directed by Roar Uthaug, *Tomb Raider is based on the popular video-game series.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/12/2018
UPC:	0883929620692
Original Release:	2018
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:58:00
Sales rank:	10,439

Special Features

Tomb Raider: Uncovered; The cast and crew of Tomb Raider reveal the challenges - and the fun - of bringing Lara Croft's thrilling adventures to life for a new generation

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Alicia Vikander	Lara Croft
Dominic West	Lord Richard Croft
Walton Goggins	Mathias Vogel
Daniel Wu	Lu Ren
Kristin Scott Thomas	Actor
Hannah John-Kamen	Sophie
Nick Frost	Actor,Max
Emily Carey	Actor
Michael Obiora	Actor
Tamer Burjaq	Actor
Derek Jacobi	Actor
Adrian Collins	Actor
Keenan Arrison	Actor
Andrian Mazive	Actor
Milton Schorr	Actor
Peter Waison	Actor
Samuel Mak	Actor
Sky Yang	Actor
Civic Chung	Actor
Josef Altin	Actor
Billy Postlethwaite	Actor
Roger Jean Nsengiyumva	Actor
Jaime Winstone	Actor
Shekhar Varma	Actor
Rekha John	Actor
Antonio Aakeel	Actor
Maisy DeFreitas	Actor
Gordon Chow	Actor
Duncan Airlie James	Actor,Terry the Trainer
Jandre leRoux	Actor
Vere Tindale	Actor
Annabella Wood	Actor
Kenneth Fok	Actor
Maruwan Gasant	Actor
Alexandre Willaume	Actor
Tom Holkenborg	Composer
Geneva Robertson-Dworet	Actor
Alastair Siddons	Actor
Rae Lim	Himiko's Grave Worshipper
Gintare Beinoraviciute	Nomad Park Goer
Bernardo Santos	Police Officer
Elena Valdameri	Bus Passenger
Conny Stadler	Girl
Michael Chapman	Businessman
Brendan McCoy	Actor
Susie Figgis	Actor

Technical Credits

Geneva Robertson-Dworet

Alastair Siddons

Susan O'Connor

Roar Uthaug	Director
Graham King	Producer
Geneva Robertson-Dworet	Screenwriter
Alastair Siddons	Screenwriter
Noah Hughes	Executive Producer,Producer
Gillian Howe	Executive Producer
Denis O'Sullivan	Executive Producer,Producer
Patrick McCormick	Executive Producer,Producer
Tomas Zaveckas	Special Effects
Ossie McLean	Camera Operator
Manoel Ferreira	Camera Operator
Simon Finney	Camera Operator
Christa Schamberger	Casting
Susie Figgis	Casting
Vivien Xu	Production Manager
Franklin Henson	Stunts
Matthew Sampson	Stunts
Anthony John Marais	Stunts
Richard Van Den Bergh	Special Effects Supervisor
Max Poolman	Special Effects Supervisor
Drew Crevello	Executive Producer,Producer
Cassidy Lange	Executive Producer,Producer
Susan O'Connor	Screenwriter
Brian Drewes	Special Effects
Andrew Eick	Special Effects
Russell Hopwood	Special Effects
Joshua H. Johnson	Special Effects
Hilton Treves	Special Effects
Kierron Quest	Stunts
Joe Kennard	Stunts
Lukaz Leong	Stunts
Alistair Whitton	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

Lara Croft is back, doing what she does best, in this reboot helmed by Norwegian director Roar Uthaug and written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons. This time out, Academy Award-winning actress Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) stars as the iconic video-game heroine, with Dominic West (The Wire) in the role of her missing father, Lord Richard Croft. When Lara discovers unexpected clues related to her father's disappearance seven years before, she vows to search for him. Her journey to retrace his footsteps and learn exactly what happened to him causes her to cross paths with Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins of Justified). Vogel leads a team of mercenaries and slaves on a quest to find the very thing that Lord Croft had been searching for: the prison-grave of Japanese Empress Himiko. The story isn't as thin as one would presume from a video-game adaptation written by two novice scribes. This is not to say that the plot is particularly complex, but it is more substantial than expected. Instead of feeling like a series of cutscenes interspersed with action, the story has a cohesiveness to it that goes beyond what many similar projects have attempted to accomplish. There seems to have been an effort to embrace the feel of the games rather than spurn it, and it works to the film's benefit. The cinematography follows suit, particularly in the numerous action scenes. A movie like this should have edge-of-your-seat action sequences, and it succeeds at this aspect as well as any film to date. Even Lara herself seems incredulous at how far over-the-top they go. With the exception of the lead, the script does fall a bit short when it comes to fleshing out the characters. This could have been intentional; after all, Lara is the Tomb Raider of the title, and video games aren't typically known for their character development. But the two-dimensional nature of Lord Croft, Vogel, and Lu Ren (Daniel Wu of Warcraft) makes it difficult to have an emotional connection to any of these individuals. Oddly, there is a little more depth present in the part of Max (Nick Frost of Shaun of the Dead) than the actual male leads. Alicia Vikander is a marvelous pick for Lara, both in appearance and larger-than-life presence. It's unfortunate, however, that she is the only female character of any consequence. Even Vogel's forces consist exclusively of large, gun-toting yes-men whose only duty is to exude testosterone and bullets. Like most action/adventure flicks, characterization takes a backseat here to the classic story of good people stopping bad people in their power-hungry quest for something ancient and sinister. Raiders of the Lost Ark set the bar for the modern-era versions of this tale, and Tomb Raider does not disappoint in carrying on the tradition.