Another crushing bore of a rip-off from The Asylum, made at speed and on the cheap with no attention to quality or anything approaching it. This one's obviously a spin on TOMB RAIDER, with a lead actress sporting a posh British accent and going on an adventure which mostly consists of characters chatting or arguing in front of a green screen. Any plot elements - and there are few - are mere derivations from those seen in a thousand INDIANA JONES rip-offs. Switch it off.
Tomb Invader
2018
Action / Adventure
Tomb Invader
2018
Action / Adventure
Plot summary
Archaeologist, Alabama Channing, is recruited by a mysterious billionaire to help find an ancient Chinese relic. The same treasure that her mother was in search of before she went missing.
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Asylum mock busters are hit and miss. Sometimes they make a good campy disaster film with the same plot of all of their films and other times it was just a very bad effort. This was a sad effort. Is there such a thing as a "fake film?"
In the CG lost city of Lintoy, China, two bad actresses die...killed by the tomb critic. We then jump years later where daughter Alabama Channing, no apologies, (Gina Vitori) is introduced in an Indian Jones type of scene. This woman who looks more like a frail Ally McBeal, beats up a few guys. Her fights are done 80's Claude Van Damme style, fighting one guy at a time while the rest of the bad guys watches. A split would have made the film.
The whole plot was boring. The tomb was clearly a set and it was well lit with background lighting which begs why they were carrying such small flashlights. I was bored to tears.
Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.
"I'm a writer from the paper"
The heading for this review is an actual line from the movie, it's how a reporter introduces themselves before asking someone for an interview, "I'm a writer from the paper", brilliant, just brilliant.
This movie is from The Asylum and if you haven't heard of The Asylum they make knockoffs of big budget movies using as little money as possible, when Transformers came out they released Transmorphers, when Pacific Rim was released they released Atlantic Rim, and now with the release of Tomb Raider we have Tomb Invader.
All the usual suspects that you'd expect from an Asylum production are present in this movie, a cast of nobodies who can't act, cgi that would have looked bad in the 90's, terrible directing and a lousy script, it's just your typical terribly bad Asylum film.