Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
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| Directed by | Jan de Bont |
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| Screenplay by | Dean Georgaris |
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Tomb Raider by Core Design |
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| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
| Cinematography | David Tattersall |
| Edited by | Michael Kahn |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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110 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom Germany Japan United States |
| Language | English Mandarin |
| Budget | $95 million |
| Box office | $156.5 million |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life is a 2003 action-adventure film based on the Tomb Raider video game series. Angelina Jolie stars as the titular Lara Croft character, and supporting roles include Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie, Noah Taylor, Til Schweiger, Djimon Hounsou, and Simon Yam. The film was directed by Jan de Bont and is a sequel to the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
Like the first film, the film received mostly negative reviews, though critics noted an improvement on its predecessor particularly in the action sequences and continued to praise Jolie's performance as Lara Croft. Despite the film's critical improvement over its predecessor, it did not repeat its financial success, grossing $156 million compared to the previous installment's $274 million. This film is Jan de Bont's last work as a director.
On Santorini island, Greece, a strong earthquake uncovers the Luna Temple. The temple was built by Alexander the Great to house his most prized treasures. Among these treasures is a glowing orb with a pattern resembling a code etched into it. Lara (Angelina Jolie) finds this orb; but crime lord Chen Lo (Simon Yam) attacks her group, kills her two companions and takes the orb. Lara escapes with a strange medallion.
MI6 approaches Lara with information about Pandora's box. It is an object from ancient legends that supposedly contains a deadly plague (the companion to the origin of life itself). They need to get it before Jonathan Reiss (Ciarán Hinds)—a Nobel Prize winning scientist turned bio-terrorist—does. The box, hidden in the mysterious Cradle of Life, can only be found with a magical sphere that serves as a map. The same sphere was stolen by Chen Lo, who plans to sell the sphere to Reiss.
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