Tomb Raider (2018) review. Part 1 I can’t call myself a huge Lara Croft fan, I only played the game that came out in 2013 and was a reboot. I assume that game series that have been going for about two decades generated enough good game mechanics, character depth and conflict to fuel new games and following movie. Yet I will compare only the game and the movie loosely based on the same story. Playing Tomb Raider was fun experience, it wasn’t all that memorable and felt weird at times, but it was worth playing. Going through adventures as brave and nearly unstoppable Lara was exiting and empowering. Well, most games designed to make you feel great about your actions and achievements. If they don’t, it’s mainly specific artistic choice like in NrieR: Automata or just bad game design. In Tomb Raider Lara was the moving force of the story, she had a lot of control and influence on what’s happening. Unlike the movie Lara, but we’ll talk about that later. Difference between stories told in game and in movie starts to show from the first minutes. Game Lara is freshly graduated college student who takes part in expedition to legendary island Yamatai, because she wants to honor memory of her father by continuing his research. She’s friendly, nice and don’t know which path to take in life. Storm, shipwreck and what follows throw her in the situation she isn’t prepared for. On the other hand, movie Lara on the first sight is more energetic and confident, independent and knows how to fight. Somehow this cinematic Croft is poor and have to go through hard work and fishy gambles to make a living. At first I liked the movie version, she looked like a kind of person who is able to survive hardships of Yamatai. But then we find out that she’s poor because she refuse claim the inheritance, by not accepting the money she isn’t accepting her father’s death. All right, she loved her father she is dealing with excruciating grief and sorrow and treasures this tiny hope that he may be alive… And then something weird begins. After finding out about her father’s secret research and his possible location she sells his last present to get money for an expedition. It is wrong in so many ways… First most obvious is why loving daughter sells the last thing she remembers her parent for? Second, why on Earth she decided to go there on her own? With her fortune Lara might have fastest boat, great team and a lot of other things to help her on the way. Apparently, bravery is all she needs.