The catch? She can only collect her inheritance if she’s willing to sign a document certifying the death of her father (Dominic West), who mysteriously disappeared seven years before the film began.
Lara is the sole heir to the Croft fortune, which includes a dizzying portfolio of successful companies and a massive mansion. Lara is poor enough to steal an apple from her trainer, but her empty wallet turns out to be by her own choice. It’s a not very subtle hint at the type of grit that will eventually turn Lara into the kind of action heroine audiences might be expecting-but damn, does she endure a lot of struggle on the way. We first meet this Lara in a boxing gym, staying in a headlock past anyone’s reasonable expectations before she finally agrees to tap out. The new Tomb Raider reboot works overtime to introduce audiences to a different kind of Lara Croft, played by Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander as a kind of tomb raider-in-training. But non-gamers might still have an outdated image of Lara Croft in their minds: A video game company’s collective take on the ultimate sexy badass-so preposterously buxom that Angelina Jolie was asked to pad out her bust line before she could star in 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. It’s been five years since the video-game reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise, which reimagined Lara Croft as a younger, less experienced, and deliberately desexualized action heroine.