{"id":22788,"date":"2018-03-20T09:07:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T08:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22788"},"modified":"2018-03-20T17:56:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:56:38","slug":"a-review-of-the-new-movie-tomb-raider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22788","title":{"rendered":"A review of the new movie &#8220;Tomb Raider&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure that the world needed another Tomb Raider movie, following the Angelina Jolie outings of 2001 and 2003, but I suppose that there are too few films with women in leading action roles and I&#8217;m a big fan of Swedish actress Alicia Vikander who has now taken over the Lara Croft role and took four months to beef up her abs for the part.<\/p>\n<p>Vikander is a fine actress and gives a more serious and sensitive version of the video game heroine than Jolie, but plot and script do not serve her well. This re-boot of the franchise is a origins story with Croft sporting bow and arrows like a kind of Katniss Everdeen and it would appear from the conclusion that the next movie will bring on the guns.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile we have a lame story about an ancient Japanese Queen Himiko who seemingly threatens the world and an unconvincing villain who meets a predictable end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure that the world needed another Tomb Raider movie, following the Angelina Jolie outings of 2001 and 2003, but I suppose that there are too few films with women in leading action roles and I&#8217;m a big fan of Swedish actress Alicia Vikander who has now taken over the Lara Croft role and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22791,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22788\/revisions\/22791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}