Indiana Jones Has A Whip, Lara Has A Pickaxe

While Lara grew to infamy as a devil may care adventurer, the Lara of recent games is depicted more as a survivor: a young woman with inexhaustible fortitude and grit. The Tomb Raider movie draws inspiration from the latter and the trailer highlights this by giving her the simple but effective gear that serves her in current games: a makeshift bow and arrow and a simple pickaxe.

Those Set Pieces

The trailer showcases several action sequences inspired by the 2013 reboot. There’s Lara’s dramatic leap within an ocean storm. There’s a desperate jump from the crumbling wing of an old plane. There’s a terrifying plunge into perilous rapids. Many of those sequences also had fatal consequences for Lara should she be at the mercy of unskilled players. Let’s hope Vikander’s Lara is lucky.

Her Divine Ponytail Appears

The trailer ends with a callback to the OG Lara. In what may or may not be a post-credit scene, Lara is sporting her iconic braided tail from the first series of Tomb Raider games. In it she’s shopping for guns and picks out two pistols, her signature armaments. It’s a callback that’s similar another one made in the 2013 reboot.

It Looks Just Like The 2013 Reboot

Between the journey to the Dragon’s Triangle, the presence of Mathias Vogel and the liberally borrowed set pieces, you’d be forgiven for thinking this is a remake of 2013’s Tomb Raider.  That’s certainly what I thought and so did the eagle-eyed people at IGN when they put together this comparison video that underscores the astonishing similarities. It’s almost like the Tomb Raider movie… is based… on a Tomb Raider video game!

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