More earnest and less cheesy than the Angelina Jolie movies, this film follows the more grounded game reboot but makes for an experience that rarely rises above adequate. Vikander is clearly invested in the character and is perfectly acceptable in the action sequences, but all the other roles are underwritten by comparison, in spite of good performances by Daniel Wu in the gender-reversed sidekick role, Kristin Scott Thomas as Laura's guardian and Dominic West as her genial father. Direction is competent but at times unsurprising, and the film is very much a by-the-numbers example of the action/adventure genre. Again, there is a heck of a long wait for some actual tomb-raiding, which turns out be hardly worth the patience spent, and much as it would like to be, this film is hardly up there with the better Indiana Jones movies.
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