Angelina Jolie, Chris Barrie, Ciarán Hinds

In director Jan de Bont's adventure sequel, thrill-seeking archaeologist Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) journeys to an underwater temple that leads to a sphere with the map to mythical Pandora's box. But...( read more  read more... ) the orb is promptly stolen by Chen Lo (Simon Yam), the leader of a Chinese crime syndicate with ties to a maniac who wants to use the box as a doomsday weapon. Lara must get the sphere back before it's literally the end of the world.

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PG-13, 117 min.

Directed by: Jan de Bont

Release Date: December 31, 2003

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DVD Release Date: November 18, 2003

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  • September 1, 2009
    Lara Croft finds a novelty bowling ball that can reveal the location of Pandora's Box if you play it a tune, and so sets off to get it before an evil scientist can get his hands on it and unleash a plague on mankind. This preposterous plot is a virtual carbon copy of the plot to ...( read more)The Mummy Returns although quite why anyone would want to copy that is beyond me. It kind of reminded me of one of those globetrotting action movies Jackie Chan used to make, but whereas Chan would've injected a lot of humour into the proceedings, this film just joylessly lumbers from one unexciting and formulaic set piece to the next. Angelina gamely strips to her skinnies and runs around shooting the extras, the entire film fuelled solely by her sex appeal but the direction is sloppy and lazy and it's very difficult to care about any of it. It's virtually devoid of any imagination or invention and is one of the most soulless, mechanical exercises in making a fast buck I've seen yet.
  • July 3, 2008
    Not as good as the first one and the special effects were really bad at times...but Angelina Jolie is HOTT!
  • January 27, 2008
    Oh, all the crap I'll subject myself to just for Gerry.

    Two main problems with this film:

    1) There was absolutely no tension whatsoever between Lara and Terry.

    2) There were so many utterly pointless scenes that had they been cut out, the film would've easily been the much nee...( read more)ded ˝h shorter. (The shark bit, for instance - good grief!)
  • December 19, 2007
    not as good as the first, but tomb raider is just sweet. there is something about this character and the way that jolie plays her that i cant get enough of. a good follow up to a well made action movie.
  • November 1, 2007
    Mmm, Gerard Butler!
  • November 3, 2009
    Mejor que la primera parte... pero sigue siendo churrito. Vale la pena solo por ver a Angelina!
  • October 31, 2009
    Putting Angalena aside for this review the first movie was good but this one fails to deliver on the same level. I don?t take this movie very seriously but the pacing is a bit off and the pace only picks up right at the end, unfortunately it is not enough to save this from being ...( read more)a mediocre film.
  • October 28, 2009
    better to see this one,she is very beautiful and she can kick your ass !!!
  • October 27, 2009
    Another Angie oogle....
  • October 25, 2009
    The video game is better

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