Photograph: Ilze Kitshoff/APĭespite failing to register with the critics, Jolie’s stint as Lara Croft did achieve the feat of setting her up as one of the more bankable female action heroes of the past 20 years, leading to sojourns in Mr and Mrs Smith, Wanted and Salt. Genuinely capable … Daniel Wu, left, and Alicia Vikander in Tomb Raider. Did you appreciate bearing witness to the birth of a legend? Or would you have happily skipped the first 45 minutes of the film? Alicia Vikander: action hero It’s a neat way to make Lara more relatable, but does rather fail when we know she only has to sign daddy’s death forms and walk half a mile south down Bishopsgate to be restored to the lap of luxury. In the new movie, Croft is living among the hoi polloi of Shoreditch, barely scraping a living as a bicycle courier because she refuses to admit her father is dead and lay claim to her spectacular inheritance. In 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, we first meet Jolie as she is fighting a giant robot to retrieve a priceless diamond. Who boasts the finest cut-glass English accent? Angelina or Alicia? Did the new movie’s slightly more grounded approach appeal more than the 00s action cheese of the original films? Who made the best Daddy Croft, newcomer Dominic West, or the earlier films’ Jon Voight? And were the new movie’s screenwriters right to dispense with any real romantic interest for Lara this time around, hunky Daniel Craig replaced by a fellow from the local Indian restaurant who never quite summons up the coverage to ask Lara out? East End chicanery and origins story fatigue All action … Angelina Jolie in 2001’s Lara Croft Tomb Raider Photograph: Alex Bailey/AP
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