YMMV / Tomb Raider (2018)

• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: While the domestic boss office income was $57 million in China, it was $79 million, making it by far the most successful market for this film.
• So Okay, It's Average: 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 Alicia Vikander to play Lara in some actual stories next time.
• Spiritual Adaptation: The various changes made to the story in the translation from game to film, particularly 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.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • How some fans feel about the film adapting out Sam being Adapted Out, with all her contributions given to 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. It's especially bad because there are so few Asian main characters in film, and Sam's role was essentially given to another white woman.
  • Alicia Vikander even admitted that she was disappointed with the fact that Lara barely interacted with any female characters in the film, namely sharing only a few brief scenes with Kristen Scott Thomas' Ana Miller.
  • Some also feel this way about the film moving in plot points from Rise of the Tomb Raider instead of just sticking to the story from the 2013 game and having it be about Lara trying to save her friends and find a way off the island.

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