Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
- kinetic
- intense
- redemptive
- epic-stakes
Neutral, breathless, extreme adventure / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Off the coast of the volcanic island of Santorini, the intrepid archaeologist Lara Croft makes the unexpected discovery of a pulsating golden orb able to guide its holder to the mythical Pandora's Box. As the legendary artifact contains ancient mysteries of unfathomable power - said to contain one of the deadliest plagues on Earth, Lara is tasked by MI6 to make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. With the aid of former Marine turned mercenary Terry Sheridan, she travels the world in pursuit of the precious item in a race against time; she must beat the unscrupulous Nobel Prize-winning scientist turned bioterrorist, Jonathan Reiss, to it.
Our read · Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive adventure · action · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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