{"id":1375,"date":"2004-09-26T22:47:07","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T22:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1375.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:16","slug":"lara-croft-tomb-raider-the-cradle-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/09\/26\/lara-croft-tomb-raider-the-cradle-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit more plot (not that it&#8217;s <em>great<\/em>) and fewer gratuitous set pieces (not that there aren&#8217;t <em>any<\/em>) make this a better film than the first one (not that that&#8217;s hard).  It benefits greatly from having Lara&#8217;s former lover Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler) around as a parner\/sidekick&#8211;at least this allows for a small measure of characterisation.  The final act, which is only ever hinted at in the trailers, could have been rather good, but is let down by an enormously cliched showdown.<\/p>\n<p>The film is also topped off with nine minutes of credits.  <em>Nine minutes.<\/em>  On a 103 minute film.  I had to double-check the DVD to make sure I had the numbers right, but the counter didn&#8217;t lie.  Nine minutes.  Really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit more plot (not that it&#8217;s great) and fewer gratuitous set pieces (not that there aren&#8217;t any) make this a better film than the first one (not that that&#8217;s hard). It benefits greatly from having Lara&#8217;s former lover Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler) around as a parner\/sidekick&#8211;at least this allows for a small measure of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_25_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}