TOMB RAIDER

TOMB RAIDER (vt LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER, and three other working titles [according to IMDb our filmographic source]). Simon West, dir., film adaptation. Mike Werb and Michael Colleary, story. Patrick Massett and John Zinman, script. Chris Corbould and Jeremy Pelzer, SpFx supervision.

+Opening "teaser" and brief closing sequence feature a large, somewhat insectoid robot, rather like a recombinant chimera of a Terminator, Alien, and enforcer 'droid from ROBOCOP (1987) (all listed this section). The view from the robot while battling Croft reproduces images from the video-game source for the film. Computer-geek aide to Croft also produces robotic insectoid toys (?) that move around his trailer and other spaces. Significant for the plot (which deals—loosely—with time and planetary line-up) are clocks, clockworks, and orreries: clockwork representations of the solar system.