Lara Croft: Tomb Raider / Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

The voluptuous video game heroine busts onto the big screen in this action-packed odyssey with Angelina Jolie as aristocratic adventurer Lara Croft, equally adept at collecting ancient artifacts and hand-to-hand combat. Here Lara has to keep a pair of mystical talismans from the Illuminati, a secret society who will use the artifacts to gain control of time and space. Iain Glen, Daniel Craig, and Jon Voight also star. 100 min. C/Rtg: PG-13

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life (2003)

Back for seconds is Angelina Jolie as silver Spandex-clad archeologist/globetrotter Lara Croft, who this time is on a quest for the legendary Pandora's Box, rumored to hold the power of life and death. With not-so-able assistance from a shady adventurer (Gerard Butler), Lara battles a demented biochemist (Ciaran Hinds) for possession of the prized artifact. With Noah Taylor, Djimon Hounsou; directed by Jan de Bont ("Speed"). 117 min. C/Rtg: PG-13

Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.