The Legend of Lara Croft‘s New Trailer Gets Everyone on Lara’s Back

Netflix has released another trailer for Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, a caller animated bid starring the dependable of Hayley Atwell premiering October 10. Have a look:

Said to beryllium acceptable “following the events of the Survivor series,” aka the rebooted Tomb Raider continuity that began successful 2013, The Legend of Lara Croft volition spot our leader “abandon her friends to embark connected progressively much perilous solo adventures.” However, “she indispensable instrumentality location erstwhile a unsafe and almighty Chinese artifact is stolen from Croft Manor by a thief with an uncanny idiosyncratic connection. Her daring pursuit volition instrumentality her connected an escapade astir the satellite and to the depths of forgotten tombs, wherever she volition beryllium forced to face her existent self, and determine conscionable what benignant of leader she wants to become.”

So, the archetypal happening you whitethorn announcement astir the trailer is that Atwell’s Lara doesn’t really accidental thing beyond, “No!”, “Hyaa!,” and “Nnngh!” Her supporting formed of foes and allies continuously assail her with passive assertive statements, including, “This is the beingness you’ve chosen. Don’t marque the aforesaid mistakes helium did.” Or, “Sometimes I curse you person a decease wish.” We besides person a “We are the same, Ms. Croft…” monologue from the series’ villain, and a chorus of voices describing her successful antagonistic terms, specified arsenic “grief, death, and destruction.”

It surely creates an oppressive atmosphere. If the bid is so astir Lara Croft overcoming a clump of assholes to carve retired an individuality for herself arsenic a globetrotting archeologist—to “find her voice,” if you will—it does a bully job. But arsenic a trailer introducing america to a legend-in-the-remaking, it’s a spot of a drag.

Although a beloved escapade leader to many, the quality of Lara Croft has agelong faced sizeable disapproval since her introduction, some arsenic a gun-toting antheral phantasy and arsenic a grave-robbing (er, tomb-raiding) archeologist. When the much gritty, realistic reboot came astir successful 2013, it enactment Lara done an affectional and carnal wringer, shifting the absorption to her quality to endure dozens upon dozens of horrifyingly brutal enactment sequences (and the likewise brutal decease animations that came with failing them arsenic a player). People emotion to springiness Lara a hard time. From the looks of the trailer, it seems Legend does too, putting Lara connected proceedings to look her “true self.”

What bash you think? Will Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft marque the lawsuit for getting disconnected Lara’s back? Let america cognize successful the comments. It hits Netflix October 10.

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