History Film / TombRaider2018

''Tomb Raider'' is a 2018 film based on the [[Franchise/TombRaider video game series of the same name]]. More specifically, it is a LiveActionAdaptation of the [[VideoGame/TombRaider2013 2013 game]]. Norwegian director Roar Uthaug directed it, and Music/JunkieXL composed the soundtrack.

* DeathGlare: After Richard calls Lara "sprout," Matthias mockingly does as well. Richard glares at him as if to say, "You don't call ''my'' daughter that!"

* AdaptationAmalgamation: While the movie bases its setting and most of its plot on ''[[VideoGame/TombRaider2013 Tomb Raider (2013)]]'', it also borrows elements from the sequel game ''[[VideoGame/RiseOfTheTombRaider Rise of the Tomb Raider]]'', namely the villainous group being named Trinity and Lara's DisappearedDad serving as her motivation.

* TankTopTomboy: Lara wears one throughout the film, just like in the video games.

* TomboyTankTop: Lara wears one throughout the film, just like in the video games.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Largely averted, especially compared to the Angelina Jolie films. Especially once on the island you can seen characters with sweat stains on their clothes. Lara herself does get banged up a lot over the course of the movie, suffering a number of visible scars with one particular puncture had her bleeding out. She also gets coated in a layer of dirt. But most of the scratches seem superficial, with only one carefully placed slash on her cheek that is mostly faded at the end of the film, and Vikander is still lovingly filmed.

* AdapationPersonalityChange: Mathias in this version is much saner than his game counterpart. [[spoiler:The only reason he's hellbent on trying to find Himiko's body is so that he could get home to his daughters as his employer at Trinity won't send people to retrieve him until he does so. He also doesn't go mad from the years stuck on the island and create a murder cult, unlike his game counterpart.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Granted, he's still the BigBad, but Mathias in this version is much saner than his game counterpart. [[spoiler:The only reason he's hellbent on trying to find Himiko's body is so that he could get home to his daughters as his employer at Trinity won't send people to retrieve him until he does so. He also doesn't go mad from the years stuck on the island and create a murder cult, unlike his game counterpart.]]
** Surprisingly, [[spoiler: Himiko herself counts. While she's the main villain in the 2013 game, the film depicts her as a queen who made a heroic sacrifice, having entombed herself on Yamatai to prevent the plague within her from infecting others.]]

* SpringLoadedCorpse: Literally. Himiko's body is rigged invoke this as one final scare for any would-be thieves or looters. The mechanism that does it is clearly seen afterwards.

** ''VideoGame/UnchartedDrakesFortune'': [[spoiler: The body of centuries-old mummy contains an ancient virus that is capable of infecting anyone in a matter of seconds, turning them hostile. It is this reason that the mummy was contain within an uncharted island to contain the virus. The antagonist attempts to bring back the virus in order to weaponize it.]]

It concerns Lara (Creator/AliciaVikander), the fiercely independent daughter of missing billionaire and adventurer Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West), who is believed to be dead. With the help of sailor and indepted gambler Lu Ren (Creator/DanielWu), whose father's disappearance is linked to her father's, she decides to find him, which leads her to the uncharted Japanese isle of Yamatai, on which the mythical Queen Himiko, who was said to have powers over life and death, is buried. She then bumps into an expedition sent by the shadowy organisation called Trinity and led by Mathias Vogel (Creator/WaltonGoggins).

* ContrivedCoincidence: When Lara finally assumes control of her father's company in the epilogue, she's given a long list of said company's subsidiaries. She leaves through the {{Doorstopper}} at random, casts a glance and, among the thousands of entries, instantly spots [[spoiler:Padna Ltd., the company whose name she saw on some Trinity crates on Yamatai, which in turn clues her into Ana's involvement with the GreaterScopeVillain]].

** In the finale, Lara herself appears willing to pull one when she [[spoiler:kicks the ladder across the Chasm of Souls into said chasm to prevent Mathias from leaving with Himiko's plague, cutting off her own escape route in the process]]. [[PlotArmor Thankfully, she gets out okay regardless]].

** [[spoiler:Not only does Lara defy her father's instructions to burn all of his Himiko-related documents, but she also takes them with her to Yamatai. This gives Mathias exactly what he needs to find the location of Himiko's tomb when said documents fall into his hands, something her father wanted to avoid.]]

* SkilledButNaive: About Lara, Alicia Vikander said "She has all the fierce, tough, curious, intelligent traits, but we’ve stripped away all of her experience. She hasn’t gone on an adventure just yet."

* WeakButSkilled: About Lara, Alicia Vikander said "She has all the fierce, tough, curious, intelligent traits, but we’ve stripped away all of her experience. She hasn’t gone on an adventure just yet."

** Despite being based on the 2013 ''Tomb Raider'' video game, Samantha "Sam" Nishimura is not present and is replaced by Sophie. [[spoiler: This includes her plotline, where Samantha is a descendant of Yamatai and thus a worthy vessel for Himiko.]]

* AssPull: The entire epilogue feels like a badly executed attempt at tie this film's continuity into that of Angelina Jolie's pair of movies. Vikander-Lara changing her hairstyle to the one Jolie-Lara was known for isn't implausible, but then the epilogue makes a big deal of Lara picking up a pair of customized pistols with obvious glee. Vikander-Lara never even touched a firearm in the entire movie although she had plenty of opportunities to do so, which makes this sudden change of heart both very jarring to watch and very obvious about what it's meant to invoke.

* EarWorm: You will not be able to stop humming "I'm a survivor" after seeing the second official trailer.

* ItstheSameNowItSucks: The movie's plot is Lara attempting to finish her father's work in an attempt to reconnect with him in some way. This is the exact same plot of the Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movie and was a major plot point in a number of other games in the series and many fans have grown tired of it.

* {{Narm}}: Lara being able to solve one puzzle after another when such a big deal was made about how they've stumped everyone who's tried for centuries, coming off like she looked up a walkthrough on GameFAQs.

* SoOkayItsAverage: Many reviews say it seems no one cared about making the movie more than passable action fodder, and it comes off more like a long test shoot or trailer for Vikander to play Lara in some actual stories next time.

* SpiritualAdaptation: The various changes made to the story in the translation from game to film, particularly [[spoiler:the true nature of Himiko's 'curse', are such that one could just as easily see this as an adaptation of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune as of Tomb Raider.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: How some fans feel about the film adapting out Sam and moving taking plot points that from Rise of the Tomb Raider instead of just sticking to the story from the first game and having it be about Lara trying to save her friends and find a way off the island.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Sam is adapted out of this film with all her contributions given to [[spoiler:Richard Croft]]. Many fans of the game were hoping that the film would focus on Lara and Sam's relationship as it is still incredibly rare for a core relationship of a film, or even many games, to be about two women regardless of whether they are romantic or platonic.

* UnfortunateImplications:The film removes fan favorite Samantha Nishimura, a half Japanese half Portuguese woman, and makes the emotional core of the movie Lara's relationship with her father. Not helping matters is that Lara and Sam remain a popular paring even after 6 years after the first games release while many fans feel that the relationship between Lara and her father is being over used. In other words, the film removed a popular female character of color who many fans ship with the series lead and handed all her contributions to a white man. This has not gone unnoticed [[https://slate.com/culture/2018/03/tomb-raider-leaves-out-the-games-most-important-female-character.html … …]] [[https://slate.com/culture/2018/03/tomb-raider-leaves-out-the-games-most-important-female-character.html … …]] ** Then there's the fact that Lara is made out to be less competent in the film then she was in the games. In the games Lara, with the help of Sam and Roth, was able to convince the other members of the expedition to sail into the Dragon's Triangle based on her theory and that there was no point in following in others footsteps. In the film Lara only finds Yamatai by following her father’s notes and needs to be told what the symbols on the book means by the captain of the ship she hired. Lara also has very little impact on the plot with the only real things of note she does is her finding her father's research, getting captured by Trinity [[spoiler:twice]] and second time and [[spoiler:stopping Vogel from getting away with Himiko's thumb]]. Not helping matters is the few things Lara does that actually effect the plot are her making the situations worse by not doing what her father tells her to do and only helps when she finally does what she is told.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:The audience is presumably meant to cheer for the death of Mathias Vogel, but while he's certainly a merciless killer, his motivations are very relatable. In fact, he's not dissimilar to Richard: abandoned on an island, desperate to return home and see his family. He comes across as a weary, frustrated man who's purposefully blinded himself to the possible ramifications of his actions because he's just that eager to return home.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: A mild example but we are clearly meant to root for Lara and see her as a strong independent woman who does what she believes is right. However, her choosing to go against her father's wishes results in giving Trinity what they need to find and open Himiko's Tomb. And she does it again when after meeting up with her father who turns out to be alive in this version, who tells her not to go to Trinity's camp as it is dangerous only for her to do exactly that which not only results in her and her father getting captured but ultimately ends in her father's death after he comes in contact with Himiko's plague.

* VideoGameMoviesSuck: Sort of. The film has a 49% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which is much better than what this trope's page image shows as the highest rated video game movie on that site. On the other hand, 49% is still 'rotten' so the trope largely applies.

* WhatanIdiot: ** In the film Lara finds a recording of her father who tells her of Trinity and that they require his research to locate Himiko's tomb which will endanger thousands of lives and that she must destroy all his research on Himiko and Yamatai. '''You'd Expect:''' Lara to do as her father asked and destroy all his research and thus prevent Trinity from finding Himiko's tomb. '''Instead:"' Lara does not do what her father asks and instead uses his research to find Yamatai and brings all her father's research with her. '''Result:''' [[spoiler:Trinity gets what it needs to find Himiko's tomb and nearly gets Lara and the captain she hired killed.]] ** Then Later in the film, [[spoiiler:Richard Croft tells Lara to stay away from Trinity's camp as it is to dangerous to go there.]] '''You'd Expect:''' [[spoiler:Lara to have learned her lesson from last time and do as her father tells her and avoid Trinity's camp.]] '''Instead:''' [[spoiler:Lara disobeys her father yet again goes to Trinity's camp to get her father's research back.]] '''Result:''' [[spoiler:Lara and Richard both get captured and Vogel has Lara open Himiko's tomb which leads to Richard dying when he comes into contact with Himiko's corpse and Vogel almost getting off Yamatai with Himiko's thumb.]]

* WTHCastingAgency?: Zigzagged. People aren't doubting that Academy Award winning actress Alicia Vikander (which the previews helpfully remind us of again and again) can pull off Lara Croft, but a lot of criticism was built around her physique and overall lack of resemblance to the 2013 version of the character. This somewhat died down when Vikander reportedly put on muscle for the role, but the complaints are still there.

It concerns Lara (Creator/AliciaVikander), the fiercely independent daughter of missing billionaire and adventurer Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West), who is believed to be dead. She decides to find him, which leads her to the uncharted Japanese isle of Yamatai, on which the mythical Queen Himiko, who was said to have powers over life and death, is buried. She then bumps into an expedition sent by the shadowy organisation called Trinity and led by Mathias Vogel (Creator/WaltonGoggins).

** [[spoiler:She did it again in the finale after she accepts her inheritance and signs over control of Croft Holdings' company to Ana Miller, whom she figured out too late that she is a member of Trinity, and that by signing control of the company over to Ana, Trinity now has full access of whatever Richard is trying to hide from them.]]