And a good thing, too, since fate hangs in the balance while she plays his parlor games. A letter from her father is discovered sewn into the binding of an old edition of William Blake "I knew you would figure out my clues," it says. Why they want to do this is never explained. This is the Key to whatever it is the Illuminati plan to do with the lost city, etc., in their plan to control time, etc. She hears a faint ticking under the stairs, demolishes the ancient paneling (with her bare hands, as I recall) and finds an old clock which conceals the All-Seeing Eye. Lara Croft is a major babe with a great set of ears. Elaborate research-and-development and manufacturing facilities must be tucked away somewhere, but we don't see them. When the dust settles, we learn that she is Lady Lara Croft ( Angelina Jolie), daughter of the tomb raider Sir Richard Croft ( Jon Voight), whose memorial stone sadly informs us, "Lost in the Field, 1985." Lady Lara lives in a vast country estate with a faithful butler and a private hacker and weapons system designer. The film opens with Lara Croft doing desperate battle with a deadly robot, in what turns out to be a homage to the openings of the Pink Panther movies where Clouseau took on Kato. Right away you can see that the movie is relatively advanced "The Mummy Returns" had no plot, and one special effects sequence, which was 121 minutes long. The plot of "Lara Croft Tomb Raider" exists as a support system for four special effects sequences. That "Pearl Harbor" is even discussed in those terms is depressing. I have been hearing for weeks from fans of " The Mummy Returns" and " Pearl Harbor," offended that I did not like those movies-no, not even as "popcorn movies." I responded that " The Mummy" was a good popcorn movie but "The Mummy Returns" was a bad popcorn movie. It's the same glacier seen in Bond movie Die Another Day, and about 20 miles east of icy landscapes seen in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.Īnother bit of British fakery has Windsor Great Park, Berkshire, briefly standing in for the steamy 'Cambodian jungle' as Lara sprints through the undergrowth.This is, at last, a real popcorn movie. The 'Siberian' location is Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, formed by the retreating Vatnajokull glacier – the largest in Europe – on the southeast coast of the country, about 40 miles east of Skaftafell National Park and 250 miles from Reykjavik. It’s not a terribly long flight – the arrival was filmed on Salisbury Plain also in Hampshire (it’s costly to fly ’copters out to Iceland, which was standing in for ‘Siberia’. Lara boards the ’copter for ‘Siberia’ at RAF Odiham, in north Hampshire. The 1965 film of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, with Peter O’Toole, is one of the few other films to be shot at Angkor Wat. There’s no public transport between the monuments, so check for guided tours. The village was no more than a set built around a small ornamental pond.Īs Cambodia recovers from its troubled past, a modest tourism industry is beginning to blossom, learning to balance economic gain with inevitable concerns about the effect on the ancient buildings. The most famous, Angkor Wat itself (the largest religious monument in the world and a World Heritage site), looms over the Cambodian village. The most spectacular temple of all, entwined with enormous trees, where Croft encounters the mysterious girl, is Ta Prohm. She tools up and scoots off in her Land Rover in front of the sacred Bayon Temple, in Angkor Thom, its 54 towers, each bearing four enigmatic smiling faces. The Cambodian temple complex, where Croft must retrieve the half of the triangular MacGuffin, is at Siem Reap in Cambodia, where she arrives, with game-style ease, onto Phnom Bakheng, a hill topped by a Hindu temple (though the site later became a Buddhist centre). Lara Croft: Tomb Raider location: the temple complex: Angkor Thom, Cambodia | Photograph: iStockphoto / xuujie
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