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Tomb Raider
Crafting Lara Croft The Stunts Visual Effects Are you Game? Director Commentary Deleted Scenes Alternative Main Title Sequence U2 Music Video 'Elevation' DVD-Rom Features Tomb Raider Timeline Tomb Raider Chronicles Demo Web Site Archive Access to online experience Widescreen version 16:9 Language: Menu: Aspect Ratio: Sound Tracks Region: Running Time: DVD Media:
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Those
who play the game avidly will just love the movie. While Tomb Raider
is not entirely accurate to the game, it faces the same female hero
in the mix with a set of plausable characters. In fact the characters
look very similar to the games ones. It might feature the same sort
of story, like having to traverse bridges, underground caves or the
odd wild animal, Lara is put to the test with an insightful look into
a real world counter part - Angelina Jolie.
 As
impressive as this idea seems, it is lacking in substance which make it
appeal for the serious film goes, and may only appeal to the game players.
However there is plenty of fun to be had, with a various amount of rock
monsters, a helping of gun fights and the very cool looking stunts. Imagine
a stunt in which the lead character bungy ballets around her mansion,
only to be bothered from her relaxation with a raid to her new found misterious
clock left by her missing father. This leads to her adventure to gathr
two pieces of a tirangle, when found and re-connected they give the holder
the ultimate power to control time. It is rather historic, and the methodolgy
of mixing the old with the new - like Lara's yoga with the high tech stuff
she carries. The whole movie is a blast, littered with explorsions and gun fights, at least the lead character can be seen kickboxing and leaping from an inescapable gun fight to a motorbike to escape. The plot isn't exactly predicable, but offers nothing really insightful. Video Quality Well, the picture
quality is impressive, the colousr the detail the sharpness are all
well done. The black level is good, indeed some whites are overpowering
in the outside shots. Seeing as most of the shots are in the dark,
the lighing is adequate. Although there are some scenes where the
shot changes and the light changes from character to character view
point - easily spotted during the conversational areas. But still
the film is vry sharp and full of lush colours. The 2.35:1 aspect
ratio is very nice too, and the frame is steady and still.
Audio Quality Very explosive,
the action sequences and gun effects all sound terrific. The dialogue
well centred to the middle is very clear adn crisp, the volume of
the disc is steady troughout. The action sequences give a good output
with a dynamic explosion around all the speakers. There is plenty
of bass making it very effective at capturing the huge props.
Extras The Disc features
a lot of DVD-Video features plus DVD-ROM set too, you can see deleted
scenes, look at creating Lara, see how the visual effects are done
and even look at the games. This disc is feature packed, with plenty
to look at and is all well made and interactive.
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