WILL 'TOMB RAIDER' BREAK THE VIDEO GAME CURSE??

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WILLIAM REYNOLDS:

 

WILL 'TOMB RAIDER' BREAK THE VIDEO GAME CURSE?? WE WILL SEE LOOKS PRETTY GOOD SO FAR..

 

Alicia Vikander's film is unlikely to come in at No. 1 at the box office, but it's a win for a genre plagued by poor adaptations.

There have been plenty of video game movie adaptations over the years, but critical and financial successes in the genre are few and far between.

With this year's Tomb Raider, Norwegian director Roar Uthaug and star Alicia Vikander are hoping to follow in the path of one of the few video game films to have resonated with audiences, 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. The film is the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time, and it made a box-office giant out of star Angelina Jolie.

While the original film was not exactly lauded by critics (it has a 20 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes), fans of the game franchise and Jolie's take on the suave, gun-toting, robot-kicking titular tomb raider bolstered a box-office take of more than $155 million and even spawned a sequel in 2003.