This week on Nerds Against Normality, we’re reviewing Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, the early-2000s video game movie that helped define the genre — for better and worse.

Released in 2001 and starring Angelina Jolie as the iconic Lara Croft, this was one of the first big-budget attempts to turn a massively popular game into a blockbuster film. But over twenty years later, does it still hold up… or is it just a loud, stylish relic of its time?

We break down the plot, characters, action, soundtrack, and faithfulness to the original games — including whether the film respects Lara Croft as a character, how Daniel Craig fits into the chaos, and why Croft Manor might have the worst security system in cinema history.

Along the way, we argue about:

Whether Tomb Raider works because it skips an origin story

If the film only makes sense to PS1-era fans

How faithful it really is to the games

And whether Lara Croft could’ve stopped everything by simply staying home

It’s messy, funny, occasionally insightful, and very 2001.

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