Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Jan de Bont was the director. The story was written by
Steven E. de Souza and James V. Hart. Dean Georgaris wrote the Screenplay.
The movie has an approximate length of 1 hour and 52 minutes.
Summary:
This time, Lara is tasked with finding Pandora's Box by agents from MI6, the object from ancient legends which supposedly contains one of the deadliest plagues on Earth, before evil Nobel Prize-winning scientist Jonathan Reiss can get his hands on it.
The key to finding the Box, which is hidden in the mysterious Cradle of Life, is a magical luminous orb that is supposed to be some type of a map. While exploring the submerged Luna Temple off Greece, she comes across the orb. However, it is stolen by Reiss' henchmen and so she recruits an old friend, Terry Sheridan, a former mercenary and Royal Marine who had spend his last couple of years in prison in Kazakhstan, to help her.
Lara and Terry embark together on an adventure that spans continents in an attempt to regain the orb. Their adventure takes them to Shanghai and Hong Kong where Reiss is engaging in shady dealings with criminal lord Chen Lo. Among the white-knuckle action sequences that take place during this time are the duo's entry by spaceplane, an intense fight scene in suburban Shanghai and the dramatic leap off the then-under-construction International Finance Centre skyscraper in Hong Kong, landing on a ship out in the Kowloon Bay.
Clues unveiled lead the pair on separate paths to the Kilimanjaro in Africa where they meet to continue the final lap of the journey. When Lara sends the info to Bryce and Hillary, Jonathan Reiss and his men infiltrate the house and capture them. Rendezvousing in Africa with Kosa, they obtain help from a local tribe for her journey only for most of them to be killed by a lot of Reiss' men upon his arrival. When Reiss reveals that he captured Bryce and Hillary, he threatens to kill them and Kosa if she doesn't lead them to the Cradle of Life. Soon they face perils such as a forest full of shadow monsters that kill immediately when they sense movement and black acid that can destroy anything. Terry eventually arrives, frees Reiss' captives, and catches up to Lara. At the end of the film, Jonathan Reiss is knocked into the black acid, Terry attempts to take Pandora's box as a prize for helping Lara find it. This results in Lara being forced to kill.
Cast
Angelina Jolie .... Lara Croft (Movie)
Gerard Butler .... Terry Sheridan
Ciarán Hinds .... Jonathan Reiss
Noah Taylor .... Bryce
Chris Barrie .... Hillary
Djimon Hounsou .... Kosa
Til Schweiger .... Sean
Simon Yam .... Chen Lo
