![]() Lara, an heiress who doesn’t act like one, is disconnected from her family’s vast holdings (she doesn’t, as of yet, have access to her wealth), and it’s her relationship with her vanished father, the tender, protective Richard Croft (Dominic West), that provides the film’s unexpected emotional core. She has to escape a mass of bike-riding “hunters,” and does it with the kind of split-second ingenuity that will serve her well when she lands on Yamatai, a rocky fairy-tale island off the Japanese coast, where her father disappeared seven years ago. It remains very much its own thing, starting with a “fox hunt” bike race through the streets of London, where Lara, who works as a courier, is the volunteer “fox,” wearing a tail and carrying a can that’s dripping chartreuse paint. Yet “Tomb Raider” isn’t beholden to sequences like that. That doesn’t make “Tomb Raider” anything more than an engrossingly fanciful adventure lark, but it’s that rare thing, a propulsive blockbuster with a bit of heart.Ī handful of the movie’s set pieces are lifted right out of the game, like one in which Lara shimmies over the rusty-jointed carcass of a propeller plane, balanced over a mile-high abyss that’s enough to give you vertigo. Vikander humanizes Lara Croft the way that Harrison Ford humanized her obvious predecessor, Indiana Jones. Her Lara may be the most grounded and believable cinematic video-game protagonist I’ve seen (she’s based on the rebooted, origin-story version of the original game), and since we buy her as a person, the movie is actually that much more immersive. ![]() ![]() She comes off as an imploring, impulsive young woman who’s in over her head but will beat the odds anyway. In “Tomb Raider,” she doesn’t come off as an action star (the way the toned and implacable Jolie did). ![]() Vikander, small-boned and olive-skinned, has a delicate, contemplative quality that’s strikingly European. ![]()
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