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Tomb Raider II: The Cradle of Life

***Warning: Spoilers***
That Lara Croft character is so unrealistically skilled at everything. Is there anything that Lara Croft COULDN'T do super well? She's an expert in hand-to-hand combat and is good with all sorts of weapons. She's an excellent shot with guns. She can drive all sorts of vehicles. She can ride horses, do stunts with a motorcycle, do all sorts of acrobatics, skydive off skyscrapers, and know everything about archaelogy, speak 10 different Languages, have powerful friends in every country of the world, and be super smart at solving ancient archaelogical puzzles. In addition, she's also incredibly rich. For some reason, she has to go to all sorts of locations in different countries like Khazistan, China, Hong Kong, Kenya, Greece, etc. It's similar to a James Bond movie in which the main character is super good at absolutely everything and travels around from location to location throughout the movie.

The story doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The bad guy specializes in creating genetically engineered super-diseases, and selling them to rich criminals around the world. He doesn't care what these guys use the diseases for, or who dies from them; he just wants money. Well, there's an ancient artifact called "Pandora's Box" which, for some reason, contains a deadly, very contagious disease for which there is no possible cure. The bad guy's goal is to find the box, get the disease, and sell it to different criminal guys for $100 million dollars from each person. Apparently, these guys don't care if everybody in the world dies, including themselves! There's no explaination as to why this Pandora's box exists, or why there's a disease it in, or anything like that.

Anyway, Lara finds the magic orb that is the map to finding Pandora's box, but the bad guys take it away from her, and she has to go and get it back, and there's lots of fighting and shooting and stuff, and then finally when she gets the orb back and find out where the box is, she goes there, the bad guys also find out and go there, there's more fighting and stuff, and finally Lara gets the box, everybody else dies, and in the end she decides to leave the box in its secret hiding place.

Some fancy technology Lara has. She's in China taking digital images of the orb, which has marking on it, and she's talking to the computer guy back at her mansion in England, sending the images to him, and on the computer at the mansion, the guy instantly maps the pictures onto a rotation 3-D model of the sphere to decode it. By the way, it seems that there's only 3 people who live in the huge "Croft Manor". There's Lara, who's out traveling and adventuring most of the time, the very smart computer geek guy, and "super butler". He's "super butler" because apparently he single-handedly takes care of the entire mansion and grounds of the manor, cutting the grass, cleaning everything, looking after the whole place, anytime Lara isn't beating him up with a stick. I guess there's only 2 guys that live in the manor, because whoever works for Lara usually ends up getting killed by her enemies, or at least gets themselves into extreme danger.

Anyway, it was OK. I don't like Angelina Jolie that much; I don't find her attractive, even though most of the guys I talk to do think she's cute. Why does she have such big lips?