persuasive lara croft
Alicia Vikander makes a persuasive Lara Croft in the new-and-somewhat-improved 'Tomb Raider'
A message concealed in one of Richard's old puzzle-boxes grants Lara access to her father's archive of materials on the Himiko project. Tasked with finding out how he met his end, she jets off to Hong Kong, where she befriends a drunk, rifle-toting boatman, Lu Ren (Daniel Wu), who eventually sobers up and agrees to steer her through tempestuous waters to Yamatai. This may be as good a place as any to note that "Tomb Raider" was directed by Norway's Roar Uthaug, who previously directed the 2016 disaster flick "The Wave," and who once again proves a peerless choreographer of massive walls of computer-generated water.