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Movie-Film Production Information Summary:Starring: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler Director: Jan de Bont Aux abords du Kilimandjaro, le "Berceau de la Vie" abrite le plus mystérieux et le plus terrifiant des fléaux : la Boîte de Pandore, dont les germes pourraient en quelques heures anéantir l'Humanité. Au moment où Lara Croft, l'archéologue de charme, s'apprête à prendre possession de l'orbe contenant les coordonnées de ce trésor, un commando chinois fait irruption dans le temple sous-marin et s'en empare. DVD Specifications:
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Facing her greatest challenges and dangers yet, Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) shows off her physical prowess like never before. During this exciting installment of her adventures, the intrepid tomb raider jet skis, rides horses, motorcycles and much more through such exotic locations as Greece, Kenya, Tanzania, Hong Kong and China as she searches for an infamous site known as "The Cradle of Life".
Front and Back DVD cover of the Film: LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER Le BERCEAU DE LA VIE Angelina Jolie
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Actors/Actresses Cast of the film: LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER Le BERCEAU DE LA VIE Angelina Jolie
- Angelina Jolie.... Lara Croft
- Gerard Butler .... Terry Sheridan
- Chris Barrie .... Hillary
- Ciarán Hinds .... Dr. Jonathan Reece
- Djimon Hounsou .... Masai warrior
- Andrew Joshi .... Reiss's Guard
- Til Schweiger
- Noah Taylor .... Bryce
- Ronan Vibert .... Agent Calloway
- Simon Yam .... Chen Lo
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Free Wallpapers of Tomb Raider Cradle of Life
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Spoilers herein.
I'll leave it to others to write about female Indiana Joneses and whether a gimmickless Bond formula works.
I actually remember the first with some fondness. It did two things intelligently:
-- It worked on the game-within-the-movie layer by having consummate programmers at Lara's disposal to create the "game" and be in it. At some points in the film, she was controlling the program and elsewhere controlled by it. Independent of the story, it was quite clever.
-- Computer programs, and games in particular, are a matter of making models. The history of modeling has as a keystone the creation of a model of the solar system, commissioned by the Duke of Orrery in the 17th century. Known as orreries, they are an icon of representation. The first film's climax literally revolved around an orrery that (like the layers of the movie) was a representation of the world, was in the world, and could control the world. Also clever -- intelligent.
So it was with some anticipation I walked into the sequel. There is no layering here. The programmers still exist, but only as boy Fridays. The game is gone -- along with the cartoonish but appealing sexuality of the first.
But we do have a simple orrery, in the form of an orb. Activated by music, it might have originally been conceived as the kind of projective map familiar to us from sci-fi films. But along the way, it inexplicably mutated into a projector of scenes (from Africa), as if that would serve.
We have two cosmologies here. One is extraterrestrial and is responsible for the creation of the box and possibly the environment surrounding the "cradle." The other was commissioned by Alexander's magician/scientists, presumably Persian. They were the creators of the orb, the model.
Oh, and we have some framing: the film begins and ends with weddings.
Every major stunt involves parachutes.
There are four action sets: an underwater temple, a quaint square (was it in Shanghai), a lab hidden within a shopping center, and the cavern of the Cradle. None of these showed any imagination.
