Plot is ho-hum. Nothing much worth mentioning there. The fight sequences are a lot of fun; those are the main reasons to watch. The plot just provides the reason to watch the fights. Having a female lead was also kind of fun. Other than one or two "notes" (descending vocals) choices, the end credit music worked.
SPOILER ALERT: So, the first fight is in her pajamas--or close enough to pajamas. Hmm. Somebody analyze that to pieces. I like the line, "I just found my car keys." Of course, the context makes the line. The premise to the character Lara's attitude towards fights--practice and real--is appealing ... but is it appealing just to me or is it the smoothness of attitude a something that appeals to all genders? It's an escapist empowerment that says, "If I could do everything, it would look like that. That's how I'd imagine it would go." And weirdly, seems to mimic what I do to counteract the occasional nightmare--empowering what I imagine to take over the nightmare and make it my own slow-motion, in-control victory.
(yeah, still spoilin' here...) And then there are the watches. The fight for an all-powerful "watch", with a watch for a key, finally destroyed, and topped with an icing-on-the-cake fight for an emotional watch--after giving up a bigger emotion. That's begging to be analyzed, too.
I suppose the fight in pajamas was to say, "Because I can."
And, of course, if a movie is going to have any quest for an ancient artifact, you have to be sure to destroy the entire temple/city in the process (c.f. Indiana Jones movies). What kind of ancient artifact action movie would it be without that? : /
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