What was your overall impression of the movie? Did you enjoy it?

I was mildly curious about it when it was announced, but not enough to take the time to go see it. From what you're saying, it sounds like it was super mediocre.

Those last two points especially had me scratching my head. For the tracker guy to even catch up to her with a video game arrow pointing him where to go would have been impressive.

And when that line about the traps being meant to keep people in was said I wasn't sure if maybe I was just missing something obvious. When you get popsicled by a spike shooting out of the floor who immediately thinks, "they don't want anyone getting out"

@Ellison Havelock said:

What was your overall impression of the movie? Did you enjoy it?

I was mildly curious about it when it was announced, but not enough to take the time to go see it. From what you're saying, it sounds like it was super mediocre.

Yeah, I think you have the right idea and it is pretty mediocre. I'd say slightly better than mediocre, but not much and I'd give it a 6 out of 10. I think/assume this was based on the 2013 video game, but they did seem to change the story quite a bit. Not sure why, though. The story in the game was somewhat better, but would've most likely required more CGI.

Anyways, while I'm here complaining, I have to point out I'm also not happy about that micro-organism that somehow manages to still be pathogenic after thousands(?) of years without having anything to feed on. This is making a complete mockery out of microbiology!

@mechajutaro said:

There are a lot of weird and illogical scenes in this film (some spoilers)

This has to be the most astounding news I've read stumbled across in a long while, on par with the discovery that the coelacanth didn't in fact go extinct and that there really is no "dark side" of the moon; a video game adaptation, containing more than a handful of scenes that are weird and illogical?!!! A more presumptuous observer than myself might declare it official: this many years after the Red Sox winning The World Series and Arnie becoming governor, the long awaited third sign of the apocalypse is upon us....

No! Well hedumacated movie aficionados such as a myself have no tolerance for such errors in the field of biology and other science! This movie however, is not as a bad as that Star wars movie the Last Jedi, for example, was with the matter of physics. Hoo boy, where to even start with that one. You can't generate thrust in space by using the Force. No way. No bloody way!

@aholejones said:

For starters couldn't the cleaning lady who obviously kept Lord Croft's secret chamber nice and clean and dust free and also kept changing the batteries to that seven year old video recorder just tell Lara of said hidden chamber. Speaking of said chamber, if the idea is for nobody to find those papers then it is probably not a good idea to leave behind a gaggle of hints leading to it.

For an apparently trained MMA fighter Lara sure seems keen on grabbing a headlock on everyone she fights. Nobody who is trained in said stuff tries headlocks on people and that is something people learn rather quickly even during basic training. I think she is one of those posers who likes to watch the UFC and get drunk and then buy ringside seats and yell instructions to the people who are fighting :"Punch him! I said punch him you fool!".

So, that green necklace, which was the only memory she had of his father, why was she so quick to pawn it off instead of just signing those papers of the company? Hell, if she was hoping his father was still alive she could just transfer the ownership back to him later.

The merry group consisting of the Crofts and some mercenarys step into Himiko's lair and rather quickly one of them is impaled by spikes. Lord Croft yells out in horror :"They weren't meant to keep people out.....they were meant to keep people in!!!". How the hell did he arrive at that conclusion?

Rocket is a master tracker. He somehow manages to find a person who fell in a river and then parachuted through the air across the island. I would imagine there wouldn't be a whole lot to track, but I guess he has a really really good nose on him.

She wasn't trained, she was training in a gym... a long way to go for that uninteresting type of fighting for her.

It didn't make sense that she was still mourning her father 7 years later as if it had only been 7 days. She should have signed the papers long ago... and read them first. But no company or estate would wait on her to sign for seven years, that made no sense at all.

Maybe she plugged in the camcorder first?

The movie was pretty good, but not great... and this Lara wasn't prepared for anything... except for solving the combination to the tomb... she wasn't trained to fight or ready to do much of anything else. She lucked out with many "miracles" just happening to work out in her favor. That took away some points.