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The new film not only re-energizes the character, but lays the groundwork for a stalwart franchise to come in the manner of "Batman Begins" or the Marvel superhero origin stories of the past decade. That's much in part to the focus on Lara Croft's background as an unruly, unwilling heiress who takes part in illegal street chases for side cash before gradually evolving into a globe-hopping treasure hunter. This new "Tomb Raider" is vicious and wince-inducing rather than frantic and eye-rolling.
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It also helps that the film draws influence from the more mature, recent "Tomb Raider" games - don't laugh, they are actually a thing - that rebooted the franchise and eschewed some of its more idiotic trappings in favor of gritty survival tales. Alicia Vikander is more of a relatable, girl-next-door-who-happens-to-be-able-to-snap-villains-heads-with-leg-locks than the smirking, action figure caricature that Jolie was. While the "Tomb Raider" reboot isn't spectacular, it's way better than its predecessors, and manages to do twin pistol-blasting, cliff-hopping cartwheels over the cheesy Angelina Jolie vehicles of the early 2000s. Anything more than a laughable failure qualifies as a solid entry in the game-to-film canon, which qualifies the likes of "Resident Evil" and "Warcraft" to be hailed as successes. And the bar for what qualifies as a decent game-bases film is not set so high. Usually, the only thing worse than a movie based on a video game is a video game based on a movie.