Lara kills the bad guy, she goes home to her unexplainably large mansion with her companions who have ill-defined relationships with her. This movie ends without really resolving anything. It could have been any old gang of baddies trying to gain ultimate power, but the Illuminati ended up being the final choice for some reason. My favorite thing about the group’s addition to the movie is that there is literally no reason for it. I kept having flashbacks to those ridiculous YouTube videos where they would find a barely distinguishable triangle in the most random of places and tie it back to the Illuminati. Look, I realize the Illuminati is supposed to be scary and mysterious, but it’s just been ridiculed to death at this point that it’s just so funny to me. And could they really get no one more menacing than Iain Glen for the villain? Every time I looked at him he looked like he was trying not to laugh at some silly little joke he’d just told. I remember the Illuminati being a joke in the late 2000s, so having it as a major plot device for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider just made me giggle. Why embrace reality when you can completely ignore it for an hour and forty minutes? The Illuminati In fact, I would say it made my viewing experience all the better. Not every stunt is faked like this, but I noticed quite a few. Definitely not wires and really just the power of Lara Croft. In the first five minutes, Lara does an insane backflip that somehow slows itself down midair. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider really said screw that and decided that none of the stunts in this movie needed to look realistic. But at least most movies try to make it look like they’re a little realistic or doable by the average slightly athletic person. In fact, a good majority of them are done with wires, harnesses, and CGI. Look, I know not all stunts are real in movies. On another note, a fun game I like to play with every Daniel Craig movie is, “Will Daniel Craig get naked or not for this movie?” More often than not, the answer is yes, he will get naked. There’s also no reason for this but I guess it makes sure the female audience is watching as well. We also get a completely naked Daniel Craig (obscured by various props/scenery) terrifying poor hotel workers. But, was it necessary to give us the odd sideboob at the beginning of the movie? Was director Simon West afraid we wouldn’t stay for the rest of the movie if we didn’t have a little tasteful sideboob? I can assure you that I was hooked from the moment Lara pulled out her Party Mix CD in the middle of a fight.Īnd that’s not all the nudity we get in this movie. ![]() While there is no actual nudity in this movie, there’s quite a bit of teasing and I really don’t know why. And none of the loose ends are really tied up at the end. Conflict seems to be resolved quite easily. Lara Croft is like the epitome of a guilty pleasure movie. ![]() The Illuminati plays a big role in the plot and also Daniel Craig is there for some reason? And there are also magic monks in Cambodia in what looks like the set of Apocalypse Now? Thanks to the hosts of James Bond Radio and /u/marketto007 from for allowing us to borrow their Bond 25 graphic for our sidebar picture.Seriously, what is up with Lara Croft: Tomb Raider? It is the most insane movie at times and for really no good reason. r/JamesBond Project Soundtrack 2023 results ![]() r/JamesBond Project Snapshot 2022 results r/JamesBond's ranking as of September 28, 2016 r/JamesBond's ranking as of April 17, 2016 Which will result in: Shaken, not stirred REDDIQUETTE RANKING THE BOND FILMS Spoilers can be written inside posts using the following formatting: Indicate that your post contains spoilers by tagging it. Please do not include spoilers in post thumbnails or titles. Fan creations which use copyrighted material but which are not made for monetary purposes are always allowed. Piracy and anything illegal is prohibited on r/JamesBond. Please message the moderators if you think your post has erroneously been marked as spam and we'll do what we can. If you have posted something and you're not seeing any activity (no upvotes, downvotes, or comments) after about an hour, the post may have been caught by AutoModerator and placed in reddit's spam filter. A Place For Anything & Everything James Bond Spam
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