LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER - THE CRADLE OF LIFE

Reviewed By: Paul Mount

Starring: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciaran Hinds, Christopher Barrie,

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“Hello boys. You’re all wet.”

Having spectacularly tanked at the US Box office and having attracted the sort of notices usually reserved for infectious diseases, LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER - THE CRADLE OF LIFE looks like the end for the cinematic exploits of the pneumatic Lady Croft, adventurer extraordinaire and all-round saucy poutress. What a shame; the Lara Croft films may not be high art (all right then, they’re definitely not high art) but they’re loads of fun and a Hell of a lot more enjoyable than certain big budget action films of this long, repetitive summer (cough HULK, cough MATRIX RELOADED).

Those of us who don’t spend every waking moment hunched over a red-hot joystick (stop it,missus) will have last seen Lara foiling the plans of some looney tunes psycopath intent on destroying the world with the help of a long-lost artefact (alright,