Lara croft the cradle of life torrent

Quotes [Deciding who should jump off first] Terry Sheridan : Right, you go first. Crazy credits The opening logos for Paramount and Mutual Films are projected onto water. User reviews Review. Top review. Let's face it, the James Bond franchise has become rather limp lately. The series has been re-energized with the new entry "The Cradle Of Life," a high-spirited, far-reaching film that doesn't quite succeed but is such an improvement on the originals that you're ready to overlook all that.

Lara is a British citizen of refined taste, highly competent in various forms of weaponry, travels around the globe to exotic locations, has friends and lovers in virtually every port, uses a wide variety of nifty gadgets, has an amusing yet dry form of wit, looks fabulous, and routinely saves the world from a madman bent on global domination.

She's a better than Timothy Dalton in any case. The film begins with Lara diving into a sunken temple off the coast of Greece. While there, she is attacked by Chinese mercenaries, her support crew killed and left for dead, the mercenaries making off with a mysterious glowing orb.

Seems that mad scientist Jonathan Reiss Ciaran Hinds is looking for Pandora's Box, and the orb is the key to finding it.

Lara is appointed by MI:6 with stopping Reiss because opening the box would unleash an amazingly nasty plague upon the world. Besides her support staff of Hillary Chris Barrie and computer expert Bryce Noah Taylor , Lara joins forces with ex-lover Terry Sheridan Gerard Butler , a shifty mercenary and the only person who knows how to get to the mercenaries who stole the orb in the first place.

And of course, time is running out. Jolie is excellent as Lara Croft, and there probably isn't an actress around who would be better cast in the role. Jolie has the physicality, the look, the voice, and the attitude to pull off the role effortlessly.

She was the only redeeming factor in the first film, and she's great to watch here. The supporting cast is a mixed bag. Hinds refrains from chewing up too much of the scenery, but he brings to mind some of the more notable Bond villains of recent times. Butler is great to look at, but his performance is far too low-key and deadpan for a movie as bombastic as this one wants to be, especially when he's paired with Jolie, who enters each seen with a relishing look in her eyes.

Taylor again acts as a dry kind of comic relief, and he displays far more chemistry with Jolie than Butler does. One of the biggest improvements in this film is the director. Replacing Simon West responsible for the monotonous "Con Air" is Jan de Bont "Speed" , a much more competent director even if some of his films are only barley entertaining "The Haunting".

Still, de Bont has chosen good locations and sets for the film, and there is a blessedly welcome lack of the "Matrix"-style visuals and candy-colored bombast so popular in action films of recent memory. He is nothing if not up to task. The film operates well within its own set of rules and physics, unlike many other films that tend to sacrifice internal logic for cheap stunts.

As much of an improvement on the first film as this is, there are still flaws. The script, while improving ten-fold on the original, still falls flat on several occasions, sometimes held up only by Jolie's confident line readings. At almost two hours, the film displays a desperate need for tighter scenes and a quicker pace while simultaneously leaving some scenes cut too quickly.

The movie can be very easily divided into stages, which may hold true to the spirit of the video game's levels, but often leaves the audience doing nothing more than predicting when the DVD chapter cuts will occur in six months. Also, like the James Bond films, there is rarely any doubt that Lara will escape any dire situation she finds herself in. Like , we always know the hero will prevail in the end, which robs some scenes of the tension needed to excite the audience.

Despite some of these flaws, "The Cradle Of Life" is a fine movie and a good way to spend 2 hours on a summer afternoon. Jolie obviously enjoys the role, and if nothing else, the film is worth it for that alone. Here's hoping the third entry into the series is even better than the this one. Details Edit.

Release date July 25, United States. English Mandarin Swahili Greek Russian. Tomb Raider 2. Santorini, Greece. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 57 minutes. Related news. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Video Photos Top cast Edit. Noah Taylor Bryce as Bryce. Julian Rhind-Tutt Mr.

Pimms as Mr. Leslie Phillips Wilson as Wilson. Simon West. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The orphaned heiress and intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, embarks on a dangerous quest to retrieve the two halves of an ancient artefact which controls time before it falls into the wrong hands. As an extremely rare planetary alignment is about to occur for the first time in 5, years, the fearless tomb raider will have to team up with rival adventurers and sworn enemies to collect the pieces, while time is running out.

But, in the end, who can harness the archaic talisman's unlimited power? Who Is Lara Croft? Action Adventure Fantasy Thriller. Rated PG for action violence and some sensuality.

Did you know Edit. Trivia Filming the scenes where Lara drives her Land Rover through the jungle there had to be endless re-shoots due to snakes and other wildlife falling through the open top roof. Angelina Jolie herself was reported to be terrified. Goofs The Buddhist abbot at the monastery in Cambodia extends the 'wai', a gesture of respect both palm pressed together and held just below the chin in front of the chest , to Lara, which she returns.

A Buddhist monk would never give that gesture to anyone, and certainly not to a female, nor as the initiating party. Also, while monks are greeted that way, they do not return the gesture. Quotes Lara Croft : To see your world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower. Crazy credits There are no opening credits after the title has been shown. These cuts included a close shot of the knife covered in blood in the final fight scene, as well as sight of the knife being twirled by Powell seconds later.

Also, the head butt delivered by Lara Croft in the end brawl was completely removed and substituted with a punch.

Although these cuts would have been waived for a 15 certificate the distributors chose to remove the scenes for a lower 12 rating. The Blu-ray release was finally passed uncut, though upgraded to a 15 certificate, in User reviews Review. Top review. I enjoyed this movie.