

Thankfully the sexual and violence was toned down in this movie unlike its predecessors, ( limited to shooting arrows and then the camera instantly switches to the protagonist). The thing that I disagree with common sense media review is that they say she knocks out people with no remorse, I completely disagree due to the fact the the protagonist literally crys on screen for an minute! Language is not an problem just a few uses of the s word and some uses of g-d. If you skip that scene then I would think an mature 10 yr old or 11 yr old could watch this (If you skip that scene). dies, the scene I explained to you is what I think what made this expert review 14+. Fortunately there was not that much graphic violence most of it was clean except 1 scene that if we were home watching it I would have wanted to skip, one of them was when lara and the antagonist crew were in the tomb trying to solve the puzzle when one of the crew touches a skeleton and then his hand starts turning black and then it goes all around his body and it kinda looks like he is an alien then he screams and falls to the ground and well. So I said to him that whatever I say if the movie gets to violent then James (My son) must go to his mother otherwise it will be a waste of a ticket. Then it should be fine, it has the same violence and actually less language then the latest Indiana Jones, when me and my son went to the theaters to go watch this movie I was not to sure if I would be okay with this movie because it looked quite intense and was very hopeful that it did not have spirits like the old Indiana Jones movies, (which I only allowed him to watch the latest one which was still quite intense). The best movie ever, if your kids have seen Indiana jones (the latest one) To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails. But die-hard Croft fans - and/or viewers hungry for female-driven action movies - will likely give it a chance. The movie is very noisy and, alas, not much fun, though it does stress the value of sacrifice and perseverance. Language includes a few uses of "s-t" and a couple of cut-off uses of "f-k." A secondary character is said to be drunk and later nurses a hangover. Lara wears a tight tank top throughout (paralleling the games), but otherwise sex isn't an issue. Lara Croft ( Alicia Vikander) takes a lot of physical punishment, often crying out in pain or terror she also kills people with no repercussion or remorse. The violence is largely bloodless but very intense, with lots of guns and shooting, arrows, fighting, beating, bludgeoning, stabbings, crashes, and explosions.

" said: 'Look, I want to do it, but I know what my reputation is, and I'll do anything you want to prove that I'm worthy. She said, 'I don't care if the studio wants to drug test me every day.'"Īs per their agreement, Jolie had both her blood and urine tested at random and did indeed prove herself passable.Parents need to know that Tomb Raider is a reboot of the video game-based Lara Croft action series, which also inspired two previous movies. Sherry Lansing, the then-head of Paramount, went to visit Jolie on the set of Original Sin to discuss the part after being advised by Jolie's father (the actor Jon Voight, who also played Lara's father in the movie) that the actress was "fragile." Lansing recalled, At this point in time, Jolie was infamous for being an unconventional wild child, which included rumors about her wearing a vial of her then-future-husband's blood around her neck and her weird relationship with her brother. Turns out, there were some people at Paramount who felt just as apprehensive about it, if for different reasons. Read on to dig up more of the darkest and most interesting behind-the-scenes stories from Tomb Raider. (And if you're a fan, be sure to check out our list of the best Tomb Raider games and the best Angelina Jolie movies.)Īngelina Jolie's casting was contentious for many of Lara Croft's fans at the time. Paramount also went to great lengths to pay as little as possible toward the film, which seemed counterintuitive to the sheer number of writers the studio burned through to get to the final draft. Despite being relegated to movie history as a cheesy Indiana Jones wannabe, Jolie's emphatic presence was really the one thing the film had going for it, helping to pull in over $250 million to make Tomb Raider a box office hit.Īt the time, Jolie's reputation as Hollywood's wild child led to the studio making some very extreme, invasive and odd decisions in regards to her wellbeing on set. While the original 2001 flick isn't exactly going to be hard to top in terms of critical reception, Vikander has her work cut out by stepping into Angelina Jolie's raiding boots. The release of the Tomb Raider movie reboot starring Alicia Vikander comes 17 years after the video game heroine's first live-action outing.
