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An international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, the film is a sequel to the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Critics considered The Cradle of Life to be better than its predecessor, especially in terms of its action sequences, and continued to praise Jolie's performance.
Fearless explorer Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) tries to locate Pandora's box before criminals Jonathan Reiss (Ciarán Hinds) and Chen Lo (Simon Yam) use it for evil. According to myth, the box holds...
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- Jan de Bont
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- Angelina Jolie
- Lara Croft Tomb Raider - 2001
- Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
- Tomb Raider
The first Tomb Raider movie was released during the Original Era, when Lara was on top of her game. At this point, the series was five games deep, with the movie being released around six months after Tomb Raider Chronicles. While Chronicles did mark a downturn in review scores for the games, there was still plenty of love around for Lara, as well ...
Lara's second big-screen outing also starred Angelina Jolie, but this time its release was much closer to a game launch. Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness was released at the end of June 2003. The Cradle of Life hit cinemas just a few weeks later, with Stateside previews towards the end of July, and a European launch in mid-August. This meant that bot...
In 2013, Lara Croft was given another reboot in Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider (2013), a game which saw Rhianna Pratchett - daughter of fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett - take up the lead writing role. It was a gritty reimagining that re-envisaged aspects of Lara's background for a second time (with Tomb Raider Legend being the first). The game wa...
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life: Directed by Jan de Bont. With Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie. Adventurer Lara Croft goes on a quest to save the mythical Pandora's Box, before an evil scientist finds it, and recruits a former Marine turned mercenary to assist her.
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- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
- Jan de Bont
- 2003-07-25
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) Official Trailer #1 - Angelina Jolie Movie HD. Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers. 1.73M subscribers. 1.1M views 11 years ago. Subscribe to...
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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (a.k.a. Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life and Tomb Raider 2) is a 2003 action film directed by Jan de Bont. It stars Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft. It is a sequel to the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
Jul 25, 2003 · In “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life,” which with becoming modesty is 10 letters shorter than “ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” she engages in a deadly race for control of Pandora’s Box, which brought life to earth but was slammed shut before it could also release a plague that would kill us all.
