Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life is a 2003 action film directed by Jan de Bont, and starring Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft. It is a sequel to the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Like the first film, the film received mostly negative reviews, but critics noted an improvement on its predecessor particularly in the action-sequences and continued to praise Jolie's performance. The film begins on Santorini island, Greece, during a wedding when it is interrupted by an earthquake. The earthquake uncovers the Luna Temple, built by Alexander the Great to house his most prized treasures.... Among these treasures is a glowing orb with a pattern resembling a code etched into it. Lara finds this orb; but it is stolen by the crime lord Chen Lo . Lara is tasked by MI6 to find Pandora's Box, an object from ancient legends that supposedly contains a deadly plague, before Nobel Prize-winning scientist turned bio-terrorist Jonathan Reiss can get his hands on it.
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| Release date: | July 25, 2003 |
| Directed by: | Jan de Bont |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 117 Minutes |
| Producer: | Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin |
| Editor: | Michael Kahn |
| Music by: | Alan Silvestri |
| Cinematography: | David Tattersall |
| Screenplay by: | Dean Georgaris |
| Estimated budget: | $90,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller, Adventure, Action, Fantasy |