Tomb Raider (Roar Uthaug, 2018)

Is the reboot a film genre by now? It's certainly starting to rival some others in terms of quantity, as franchises are repeatedly restarted to tap into whatever goodwill the fans might still have for their characters and relying heavily on being able to knock off the first round fairly securely as an origin story.
Not that Lara Croft has a Batman-like depth of back story: this is a video game character, for Christ's sake. Alicia Vikander brings a callow freshness to the role, in contrast to Angelina Jolie's bulletproof sex bomb, but the action is a yawnsome mix of a lot of running and things collapsing, sprinkled with some Raiders-derivative traps and cod archaeology, and the villain, a nasty treasure hunter after the tomb of a lethal Japanese witch, is straight out of some middling TV movie. Of course, none of this will stave off a sequel, as longs as any breath remains to be flogged out of this expiring horse.

4/10