Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness was released at the end of June 2003. Lara's second big-screen outing also starred Angelina Jolie, but this time its release was much closer to a game launch.
However, many fans enjoyed Lara's big-screen debut enough to get the movie a sequel that would come to cinemas two years later. While critics were mostly unimpressed with the film, Jolie herself was a hit. There are tombs, traps, betrayals, near-death experiences, and of course the ultimate success of Lara's mission. What follows next is a narrative that contains everything you'd expect from a story based on Tomb Raider. Related: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Is Still One Of The Best Video Game Movies At 20Ī mysterious clock, said to be the key to locating the two halves of the Triangle of Light, has been hidden in Croft manor and a letter from Lara's father tasks her with finding, and destroying, the powerful object. If successfully reassembled, the artifact can give the wielder the power to control time. Lara Croft Tomb Raider sees the adventurer become accidentally embroiled in an Illuminati plot to rejoin the pieces of an artifact known as the Triangle of Light, which must be put together before an upcoming solar eclipse. While Chronicles did mark a downturn in review scores for the games, there was still plenty of love around for Lara, as well as for Angelina Jolie, who starred as her. At this point, the series was five games deep, with the movie being released around six months after Tomb Raider Chronicles. The first Tomb Raider movie was released during the Original Era, when Lara was on top of her game.