Here\'s some excerpts from the review (inked previously by IronFist). I just thought I could give some counter-opinions, so here they are.
1)" . . .why do people use flashlights in caves when the caves they\'re in are lit by close-to-daylight lighting?"
I actually agree with this one, but the lights looked cool though.
2) "Why did an ancient civilization create gigantic stone warriors...designed to spring to life and kick the ass of anyone messing with their temple...if these stone warriors can be taken down by karate chops (or a bullet) just like a human?"
Obviously they didn\'t know about the bullets, and stone was probably the stongest affordable solution.
3) "Why did the same civilization break a stone key needed to control time into two pieces...and hide them on opposite ends of the Earth to prevent anyone from ever using/abusing said key...instead of pulverizing the key entirely so it could never be re-assembled and utilized?"
What fun would be in that? It\'s like all other movies, someone always does something stupid, and the hero fixes it.
4) "Why do Eskimo sled dogs feel the need to attack an undulating, dimensional warping effect which is doing nothing to provoke them when, in reality, such a thing would scare the piss out of any self-respecting canine?"
Uh, have you ever shined a light on the wall and watch your dog go crazy chasing it?
5) "LC:TR\'s villains are weak – their "plot" (i.e. what they intend to do once they attain the power they seek) is unclear – thus what good-girl Lara is struggling to thwart has no resonance or meaning to the audience – which means the film has no drive."
What doesn\'t he understand? Bad guys are bad and it\'s the hero\'s job to kick their butts! That\'s all the plot I need! (Although, the whole inter0twined story of Laura Crofts father did have quite an effect on a woman a couple rows behind me, she was crying and sniffling)
6) "Here, people go from place to place...and carry-out action after action...in a meandering fashion which suggests the filmmakers were simply pulling concepts out of their butts & smearing them across the screen. Because they had nothing else for their characters to do at a given moment, or because it looked cool."
Hmm, just like in video games. Maybe the movie does this because, oh my gosh, it\'s modeled after a video game!
7) "But the film doesn\'t look cool."
Oh, but it does! Granted it\'s not a great as some action movies past, but it ranks up there!
8) (insert the endless blabing about the set design here)
Um, the sets were modeled. . . after the game. i thought they looked good, and very Tomb Raider-esque.
Then they go on and on, I get bored reading the review, so I\'ll stop here.
