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| Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life | |
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| Directed by | Jan de Bont |
| Produced past | Lloyd Levin Lawrence Gordon |
| Written past | Dean Georgaris |
| Starring | Angelina Jolie Gerard Butler Ciarán Hinds Chris Barrie Noah Taylor Til Schweiger Djimon Hounsou Simon Yam |
| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
| Cinematography | David Tattersall |
| Distributed past | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(due south) | July 21, 2003 July 25, 2003 |
| Running fourth dimension | 117 minutes |
| Land | The states Frg Nippon Uk[1] |
| Budget | $95 million |
| Gross revenue | $156,505,388 |
| Preceded by | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider |
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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life is a 2003 action film directed past January de Bont, and starring Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft. Information technology is a sequel to the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Similar the start film, the pic received mostly negative reviews, but critics noted an comeback on its predecessor particularly in the action sequences and continued to praise Jolie'southward performance.
Contents
- 1 Plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 Production
- 4 Critical response
- 5 Box office performance
- vi Music
- 6.1 Soundtrack
- six.ii Score
- vii References
- eight External links
- 9 Trailer
- 10 References
Plot [ ]
The picture show begins on Santorini island, Greece, during a wedding when it is interrupted by an earthquake. The convulsion uncovers the Luna Temple, built by Alexander the Great to house his well-nigh prized treasures. Among these treasures is a glowing orb with a pattern resembling a lawmaking etched into it. Lara finds this orb, also as a strange medallion; but both are stolen by the crime lord Chen Lo (Simon Yam). Lara (Angelina Jolie) only merely manages to escape equally a subsequent earthquake causes the Luna Temple to collapse, while her two companions are killed by Chen's men. Lara is tasked by MI6 to observe Pandora's Box, an object from ancient legends that supposedly contains a mortiferous plague, before Nobel Prize-winning scientist turned bio-terrorist Jonathan Reiss (Ciarán Hinds) tin can get his easily on it. The cardinal to finding the box, which is hidden in the mysterious Cradle of Life, is a magical luminous sphere that serves equally a map, the ane stolen past Chen Lo in Santorini (Simon Yam), who plans to sell the sphere to Reiss. To assist her rail downwardly Chen Lo and the brawl, Lara recruits an onetime lover, Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler), a former mercenary and Royal Marine, who was in prison house in the Republic of Republic of kazakhstan.
Among the action sequences that take place during this time are Lara and Terry'due south entry into Mainland china, a fight scene in suburban Shanghai, and a leap off the then-under-structure International Finance Eye skyscraper in Hong Kong, using special winged flight-suits that Terry had arranged for, landing on a ship out in the Kowloon Bay after taking the Orb from Reiss. It is revealed that the medallion Lara also recovered from Chen Lo shows how to unlock the information in the Orb; a certain arrangement of musical sounds. Meanwhile, Lara and Terry brainstorm to fall in love over again; merely Lara starts to back away from him, knowing that she could easily impale him if he betrays her. She seduces him one morning, so leaves him handcuffed to a bedpost, saying 'I'chiliad non leaving because I tin't impale you; I'm leaving because I could'.
Lara finds her way to a floating houseboat where a Chinese family is watching SpongeBob cartoons when Lara asks to utilise their satellite to communicate with Bryce. After some technical difficulties, Bryce sends Lara the file and she uses the sounds make the The Orb reveal the location of the Cradle of Life, which is revealed to be somewhere near Mountain Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, thanks to an ancient hologram produced by the Orb. Lara sends this info to Bryce (Noah Taylor) back at Croft Manor. Subsequently the transmission, it is revealed that Reiss and his men had infiltrated the mansion and captured Bryce and James "Hilly" Hillary (Chris Barrie).
Lara meets up with Kosa (Djimon Hounsou), an African friend who serves equally her translator as they obtain the information from a local tribe virtually the Cradle of Life. Kosa translates for the tribe's Principal, stating that the Cradle of Life is in a crater protected by the "Shadow Guardians". Equally the expedition sets out, Lara, Kosa, and the tribesmen with them are ambushed past Reiss' soldiers. More than tribesmen are killed by Reiss' soldiers with some of the soldiers being killed by Lara in the fight. The fight ends with Lara surrendering to overwhelming odds as Reiss' helicopter started to state. Reiss and Sean (Til Schweiger) threaten to kill Bryce, Hillary, and Kosa unless Lara leads him and his Tribeman to the Cradle of Life. Upon inflow at the crater, they encounter the Shadow Guardians, humanoid creatures which kill immediately when they sense a movement and vanish into wet patches on dead trees. The moisture patching being the blood of their victims. Sean and most of Reiss' soldiers are killed by the creatures. When Lara drops the Orb into the pigsty that opens the archway to the Cradle of Life, the Guardians fall to pieces and both Lara and Reiss are drawn into the Cradle of Life, a labyrinthine cavern fabricated of some foreign crystalline substance, racked by bolts of energy where 'sky and earth are 1, direction meaningless'. Inside there is a pool of highly corrosive black acid (linking dorsum to one of the myths almost Pandora'due south Box), which holds the box and where the laws of physics do not apply, as Lara and Reiss are able to walk (upside downwardly) along the ceiling of the cave. Terry arrives, frees Reiss' captives, and catches up to Lara.
Following a climatic fistfight between Lara and Reiss, Reiss is knocked into the acid pool by Lara after he is distracted by Terry, killing and dissolving him. When the couple tries to leave, Terry attempts to have the box as compensation for finding information technology; but she staunchly refuses to let him, knowing the danger if the box were e'er open. Despite her love for him, this results in Lara being forced to fatally shoot him in cocky-defense merely afterwards Terry draws his ain gun preparing to shoot Lara. Lara is tempted to open the box herself, merely realises that some artifacts are not meant to be found. Placing the box back in the acrid pool, she leaves, giving the medallion to the tribe leader.
Lara and Kosa exit the village, along with Bryce and Hillary, who were beingness prepared for a tribal wedding ceremony, which they didn't know they were existence prepared for. The film ends with Lara driving the jeep abroad from the setting sun.
Bandage [ ]
- Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft
- Gerard Butler every bit Terry Sheridan
- Ciarán Hinds as Jonathan Reiss
- Chris Barrie as James "Hilly" Hillary
- Noah Taylor equally Bryce
- Djimon Hounsou as Kosa
- Til Schweiger equally Sean
- Simon Yam as Chen Lo
- Terence Yin equally Xien
Production [ ]
The upkeep for Cradle of Life was just under $100 million (lower than the starting time moving-picture show) and like the starting time film, it was financed through Tele-München Gruppe. The picture was likewise distributed internationally by Japanese company Toho-Towa.[2]
Filming lasted for three and a one-half months, which included six-24-hour interval shoots on location in Hong Kong, Santorini, Llyn Gwynant in North Wales (doubling for mainland People's republic of china), and a 2-week stint in Kenya for shooting at Amboseli and Hell'south Gate, with the residue of the picture filmed on soundstages in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.[3] The film was banned in China (salvage for Hong Kong and Macau) after the government complained that it portrayed their land as lawless and "overrun with hugger-mugger societies".[4] I scene in the movie was set in Shanghai, only it was shot on a set and not on location.
Cradle of Life also featured the new 2003 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, offset seen when Lara parachutes into the moving vehicle in Africa and takes over the wheel from Kosa. As office of Jeep'southward advertizement entrada, information technology was specially customised for the film by Jeep's blueprint team forth with Cradle of Life production designers, with three copies constructed for filming.[v] 1,001 express-run Tomb Raider models were produced—available just in argent like the motion-picture show version and minus its special customisations—and put on the market to coincide with the release of the film. Jeep vice president Jeff Bell explained, "[The ad entrada] is more just a production placement [...] the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon is the most capable Jeep e'er built, so the heroic and extreme environment in which Lara Croft uses her custom Wrangler Rubicon in Tomb Raider is authentic."[6] In the end, Lara's Rubicon had less than two total minutes of screen fourth dimension in the finished film.
Critical response [ ]
Cradle of Life received slightly more than positive reviews than the original, with a 24% rating out of 163 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes,[vii] and a 43/100 rating on Metacritic.[8] Salon described it every bit a "highly enjoyable summer thrill ride."[ix] Roger Ebert gave the flick 3 out of 4 stars, stating that the film was "better than the first one, more bodacious, more than entertaining [...] it uses imagination and exciting locations to give the movie the aforementioned kind of pulp gamble feeling nosotros get from the Indiana Jones movies."[ten] David Rooney of Variety praised Jolie for existence "hotter, faster and more commanding than last time around equally the fearless heiress/adventuress, plus a piddling more human."[11]
Cradle of Life was all the same heavily panned. Rene Rodriguez of the Miami Herald called it "another joyless, brain-numbing adventure through lackluster Indiana Jones territory";[viii] James Berardinelli of ReelViews said "The get-go Tomb Raider was dumb fun; Cradle of Life is just plain dumb [...] the worst action movie of the summer."[12] Wesley Morris of the Boston Earth wrote, "Information technology's a bullet-riddled National Geographic special [that] produces a serial of dumb, dismal shootouts that are so woefully choreographed there'southward reason to believe Debbie Allen may be behind them." He then said of director De Bont, "He has yet to run into a contraption he couldn't use to damage your hearing."[thirteen]
Box role performance [ ]
Despite the slightly more favourable critical response, Cradle of Life suffered a disappointing opening weekend, equally information technology debuted in quaternary place with a have of $21.8 million,[xiv] a 54% drop from the original's opening gross of $47.vii 1000000. In the UK, the film opened upward at number three, earning £1.5 1000000 in its start three days.[15] The pic finished with a domestic gross of just $65 meg, therefore relying on the foreign box office to brand a turn a profit; making it a box function bomb.
Overall, 2003 was non a good twelvemonth for the Tomb Raider franchise. Paramount blamed the failure of Cradle of Life on the poor functioning of the then-latest installment of the video game series, Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness.[16] Later on numerous delays, Angel of Darkness was rushed to shelves just over a calendar month before the release of the motion picture, despite the terminal product being unfinished and loaded with glitches. Information technology spawned mediocre sales while garnering mixed reviews from critics,[17] and former Eidos senior executive Jeremy Heath-Smith, who was also credited equally an executive producer in the moving picture, resigned days subsequently the game was released.[sixteen]
In March 2004, producer Lloyd Levin said that Cradle of Life had earned enough internationally for Paramount to backing a second sequel, simply any hopes of it going into production were soon quelled by Jolie's announcement that she had no want to play Lara Croft a 3rd fourth dimension. "I just don't feel like I need to practice some other ane. I felt actually happy with the last ane. It was one nosotros really wanted to do."[18]
Music [ ]
As with the original flick, the sequel opted to split its soundtrack onto two CDs: the first, with tracks contributed by various artists; the second with Alan Silvestri'due south original score for the motion-picture show.
Soundtrack [ ]
| # | Song title | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| one | "Heart Go Faster" | Davey Brothers |
| 2 | "The Only Way (Is the Wrong Way)" | Filter |
| iii | "Bad Daughter" | Alexandra Slate |
| iv | "Satellite" (Oakenfold Remix) | P.O.D. |
| 5 | "The Last High" | The Dandy Warhols |
| 6 | "Time" | Saliva |
| seven | "Leave You Far Behind" | Lunatic Calm |
| 8 | "Jam for the Ladies" (Jason Nevins Remix) | Moby |
| 9 | "Starting Over" | The Crystal Method |
| x | "Yous Can't Look Away" | Sloth |
| eleven | "I Hate This" | Nadirah "Nadz" Seid |
| 12 | "Reason Is Treason" | Kasabian |
| xiii | "Into Hell Once more" | tertiary Strike |
| 14 | "Tears from the Moon" (Chillout Mix) | Conjure 1, Sinéad O'Connor |
| xv | "Flight to Liberty" | David A. Stewart |
| 16 | "Pandora's Box" | Alan Silvestri |
The track "Did My Fourth dimension" by Korn was supposed to appear on the soundtrack, but due to problems with Korn's record company, it failed to announced.
Score [ ]
- Composed past Alan Silvestri
- Performed by London Symphony Orchestra
- Conducted by Alan Silvestri
| # | Song title |
|---|---|
| 1 | "Opening" |
| 2 | "The Luna Temple" |
| 3 | "Shark Attack" |
| 4 | "'I Need Terry Sheridan'" |
| five | "Arrival in Prc" |
| 6 | "Captured by the Shay Ling" |
| seven | "Escape from Chen" |
| 8 | "Flower Pagoda Battle" |
| ix | "Skydive Getaway" |
| 10 | "Orb Manual" |
| xi | "Journeying to the Cradle of Life" |
| 12 | "The Cradle of Life" |
| 13 | "Pandora'due south Box" |
| 14 | "'Non Meant to Be Found'" |
| xv | "Lara Croft – Tomb Raider" |
References [ ]
- ↑ Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life. British Film Institue.
- ↑ Toho-Towa official website (English)
- ↑ Upkeep for Tomb Raider-2 With Angelina Jolie - edwardjayepstein.com
- ↑ Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - Trivia - Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Tomb Raider Lara Croft to Bulldoze Special Jeep Wrangler Rubicon - Motor Trend, four/29/03
- ↑ Jeep Wrangler Tomb Raider - Difflock.com
- ↑ Cradle of Life - Rotten Tomatoes
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Cradle of Life - Metacritic
- ↑ Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life - Salon.com, 7/25/03
- ↑ Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life - Chicago Sun-Times, vii/25/03
- ↑ Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - Diversity.com, seven/25/03
- ↑ Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - Reel Views, 7/25/03
- ↑ 'Lara Croft': Cradle of lifelessness - BostonGlobe.com, 7/25/03
- ↑ Weekend Box Office Results for July 25-27, 2003 - Box Part Mojo
- ↑ Entertainment | Lara's second box office raid fails. BBC News (2003-08-26).
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Arraign Game - Entertainment Weekly, 7/29/03
- ↑ Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness - Metacritic
- ↑ Jolie Finished Being Lara Croft - IGN.com, 3/16/04
External links [ ]
- Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life at the Internet Movie Database
- Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Filming Locations in Wales
Trailer [ ]
Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life - trailer 1
References [ ]
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