Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life is a 2003 action-adventure film based on the "Tomb Raider" video game series. Angelina Jolie stars as the titular Lara Croft character with supporting performances from Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie, Noah Taylor, Til Schweiger, Djimon Hounsou and Simon Yam. An international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, the film was directed by Jan de Bont and is a sequel to the 2001 film "". "The Cradle of Life" received mostly negative reviews, though critics noted
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life Jeff Bell explained, "[The ad campaign] is more than just a product placement ... the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon is the most capable Jeep ever built, so the heroic and extreme environment in which Lara Croft uses her custom Wrangler Rubicon in "Tomb Raider" is accurate." In the end, Lara's Rubicon had less than two total minutes of screen time in the finished film. "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life" holds a 25% rating out of 171 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 43/100 rating on Metacritic based on 34 reviews. Audiences polled by Cineascore gave it a