Kennedy also noted that the film had “less overt objectification of her female body” and “more construction of her as a specifically athletic body,” though it didn’t fully escape the patriarchal trappings of the story’s original premise. “It felt like closer to perhaps the early design intentions of the game.” “The opening with the boxing sequence and then being one of the pack of the cycle couriers through London, all of that de-emphasizes her as a romantic lead, and emphasizes her as an active, tomboyish heroine,” Kennedy tells THR. University of Brighton professor Helen Kennedy, who wrote “ Lara Croft: Feminist Icon or Cyberbimbo? On the Limits of Textual Analysis” in Game Studies in 2002, argues that the film’s portrayal was more in line with the 1990s video game than the Jolie films, where she argued Lara played an adventurous tomboy. While reviews have not been glowing - the film has a 50 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes - two critics of the gender politics in the older titles told The Hollywood Reporter after the film’s opening weekend that the new film represented a significant improvement, while another called it a disappointment. So what do critics of the first film and/or video game think of the latest Tomb Raider film adaptation, which arrived in theaters Friday? Starring Alicia Vikander, the Roar Uthaug-directed film tells an origin story of how Lara came to inherit the film’s title and go on her first coffin-infiltrating adventure. And so, while a number of articles published in scholarly journals in the early aughts took the character seriously and found a good deal of merit in women’s embrace and reappropriation of the character, several also criticized the character’s idealized body and advertising that put her in sexual situations in both the films and video game. The first movie, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, featured star Angelina Jolie in a slow-motion shower scene within its first 10 minutes in both films Jolie wore padded bras, tight tank tops and hot pants to mimic her sexualized depiction in the original video game upon which the films were based. There is little love lost between feminist scholars and the original Tomb Raider films, which debuted in 20. But surely nobody would spend millions of dollars on a film with this central weakness. It SEEMS that the film's heroine, in order to Save the World, merely had to sit still and do nothing - and KNOWING this, she Endangered the World, so that she could later save it in a more rope-swinging, kick-boxing, ammo-expending fashion. Usually I can at least decipher the storyline of a film afterwards, but this one has me baffled. Anyway, all this aside, Jolie was, as always, terrific, when the film allowed her to be. That's what breasts, by and large, DO - those of Hollywood actresses being an unfortunate exception to the general rule.
Oddly, the audience I was with tittered because Jolie's breasts bounced as she walked downstairs. It must get tiring looking at large computer-generated breasts that just SIT there, like cast-iron balloons. I'm not familiar with the computer game - if I were, I would be doubly grateful to see Angelina Jolie in the leading role. If they HAD seen it, they'd know that Spielberg edited his action sequences so as to let the audience know what was going on, to give us an idea of where the hero stood and what obstacles he faced also that John Williams wrote actual MUSIC, complete with themes and chords and rhythms and consecutive bars that often as not differed from one another. "Tomb Raider" is "Raiders of the Lost Ark" emulated by people who haven't seen it. As if that weren't enough, someone - it may have been the composer, it may have been the director - thought that the action scenes would be best accompanied by a tuneless, relentless, jackhammer techno beat. It was the choreographer's work that was masterful the idiots who filmed and edited it did their darndest to make it choppy, incoherent, and unexciting. The use of space in the bunjee-jumping-inside fight scene is masterful - all three dimensions are used in a clever way.
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