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Our car was in the shop and we had time to kill. So, against my wife's wishes, we went to see Tomb Raider.
It was as good as I expected and she liked it better than she thought she would.
Not only does it move at a fast pace (Of course it was. It was based on a video game) but many of the action scenes were real (and not CGI).
I liked the attention to detail.
For example, (mini spoiler) Lara is being washed down rapids toward a waterfall. She catches herself on the rusted out wreckage of a downed World War II plane. They could have used any plane. But someone actually built a mock-up of a plane that looked like a Mitsubishi G3M "Nell" bomber, a plane that would have been used in that area. In many World War II movies about air battles in the Pacific, American T-6 "Texan" trainers have been used instead of A6M "Zero" fighters. I'm a military airplane nut, and that was stunning.
One minor thing irked me. When she travels to find her father, Lara enlists the aid of a local young ship captain whose father had disappeared with Lara's dad. He spoke English. The problem is it wasn't accented at all; no British accent, no Asian accent, no nothing. English, like he had been brought up in Omaha. Oh well, you can't think of everything.
I gave it a 4 stars. It was a pleasant surprise, almost as pleasant as the mechanic of my wife's car sticking to his estimate.
Later
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