Actually, its crap. Worst movie of the summer thus far. The action pieces aren't that good, there is no plot to think of, and including a cliche like the Illuminati in the movie is groan worthy....

Grade = F

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And the real salt in the wound is that after you endure sitting through about two hours of this shit to reach its even shittier conclusion, the finale song comes up entitled "Where's Your Head At?"

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The man with the magic hands.

It's great that Square is doing the Final Fantasy movie. Since studios don't really know how to make movies, let's give the actual designers the chance. The creator of the FF series is directing the movie as well. Unfortunately, the FF games bore me to tears with their suckage, but the movie has nothing to do with the games. So the movie might be good! I just hope that Nobuo Uematsu does the music. He's done some amazing work on the games (up until FF7 anyway). I know that he has expressed interest. Let's leave the normal composers out of this!

I've never played "Tomb Raider" the video game or even seen it for that matter.

I was expecting a female Indiana Jones, but it never happened.. at least for me. I did enjoy the film, although it was highly un-realistic. The action scenes never ceased to end, nor did her supply of bullets. Never did figure out how she heard that clock ticking, since it was wrapped in a cloth, locked in a trunk, and hidden behind a false wall.

It did however make me want to go home and swing from the ceiling fan in the living room in my silk pajamas!

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Barry Floyd
Floyd Entertainment Group
Nashville, Tennessee
(Drive-In Theatre - Start-Up)

WHY did she go bungie jumping in her living room? The only reason I can think of is so that she could fight the bad guys who came crashing through her windows... ALSO swinging from bungie cords.

WHY did she fight the robot in the beginning of the movie? The only reason I can think of is so that it wouldn't work later on when the bad guys came.

I could probably think of about 1/2 dozen other WHY's, but I think you understand what I'm talking about. My only idea is that these things are parts of the video game. Since I've never seen more than 10 seconds of the game in my whole life I don't identify with these scenes. I supppose that those who are into the game will instantly recognize these things. Am I right?

While I'm at it, I think the editing of this movie leaves a LOT to be desired. There are a lot of non-sequiturs and jumps in the plot. I also think there were too damn many "machine gun" intercuts. (Repeating a fraction of a second's worth of action from several different camera angles, in rapid succession, to "juice up" the action.) For me, they served to do nothing more than confuse the viewer. I have two thoughts on this. First, it is said that this movie went through a major re-edit just before it was released. If so, I think the final result really shows... and it SUX! Second, I have a hunch that this kind of thing was done to "play" to the target audience of the movie... teenagers who play the game.

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I remember something early on in the Tomb Raider production in which the original T.R. composers were going to do the score. Then Michael Kamen took over. Then they hired Graeme Revell because the Kamen soundtrack wouldn't marry well with the Stuart Baird edit of the film or some crap like that. I'm real curious as to whether the game composers got a chance to work on the score, and if so, what it sounds like, because the music in the T.R. games is kickass. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for that and Kamen's rejected score.

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The man with the magic hands.

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P.S: Don't rely on people's criticism. Everyone has a different taste on movies. Some will surely love this movie. Others not so much and others not at all. Take care all.