Tomb Raider
*ing : Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Kristin Scott Thomas Rated : 5.5/10 From Angelina Jolie in the first one to Alicia Vikander in the 2018 edition, the Tomb Raiders have not moved too many paces, certainly not at all from their original calling. Granted that the franchise allows them to follow only a rigidly set path which has to lead to some tomb raiding in some remote part of the world, mostly to save the world from unmitigated evil (this time an infection genocide), but sometimes variety does help, especially when it is not the kickass Angelina Jolie taking the battle to 70 mm bigness. Yes, Vikander brings her own brand of athleticism to the proceedings and yes it is quite a becoming thought that a movie with a female lead has stood its own for 17 years, but Vikander does not have that splashy oeuvre of Jolie that can carry a movie on the shoulder of a female lead with style and class. Vikander, a rich father’s girl who lost her daddy to an un...