‘Tomb Raider’ Trailer: Alicia Vikander’s Lara Croft Finds Her Destiny

Well, here comes Lara Croft. Again. Does anyone actually play “Tomb Raider” anymore, or is it just a piece of intellectual property Hollywood needs to exploit? Honestly, maybe it’s a little bit of both but this blockbuster reboot hasn’t been inspiring much confidence so far.

Alicia Vikander wears the sweat-stained tank-top playing a driftless bike courier (lol), she decides to search for her adventurer Dad’s last known location, and naturally, faces all kinds of challenges along the way. This is far beyond fixing a flat tire. Here’s the official synopsis:

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Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father’s global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he’s truly gone. Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can’t understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his mysterious death.

Going explicitly against his final wishes, she leaves everything she knows behind in search of her dad’s last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. But her mission will not be an easy one; just reaching the island will be extremely treacherous. Suddenly, the stakes couldn’t be higher for Lara, who—against the odds and armed with only her sharp mind, blind faith and inherently stubborn spirit—must learn to push herself beyond her limits as she journeys into the unknown. If she survives this perilous adventure, it could be the making of her, earning her the name tomb raider.

Directed by Roar Uthaug (“The Wave“), and co-starring Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu and Kristin Scott Thomas, “Tomb Raider” opens on March 16th.