Stop making origin movies of well understood origin stories!

This is not a terrible movie for a videogame movie, but oh how it was so boring! Nothing actually happens in 30 minutes in. Do we need to see Lara Croft practising boxing? Lara Croft taking deliveries? Lara Croft quoting Hamlet? Lara Croft recklessly riding bicycle around town? What those activities even have anything to do with being a Tomb Raider???

How about start making a Tomb Raider movie with a tomb raider in the first place? We all know the basics, Lara Croft is the daughter of a rich Lord and she has a very particular set of skills. Skills she has acquired over a very long career... like long jumping and strong hands, for example. She's quite popular, y'know? Even people who never played the games knows that. It's like knowing that Superman can fly.

We came to see this kind of movies (videogame movies) to see our favorite characters chew bubblegum and kick ass... and hopefully they all out of bubblegum! How can't movie producers understand this simple request???

Also happened in Assasin's Creed movie. Who cares about weird prison and virtual reality cherry picker apparatus? Just have Fassbender jumping from a clock tower while an eagle squeaking in the distance and stabbing historical people already! Sheesh! But I digress...

Start with Lara Croft in a tomb dual-welding guns shooting T-Rex and bats! Okay maybe not specifically T-Rex, but at least make people interested first. Then work the story from there. And tone down the daddy issue wtf.

Focus on the tomb, Himiko, and Yamatai. Make a detailed back story about her, her tragic story and slowly peel it out to discover hidden stories about this mysterious queen and her relation with Japan. When I said detailed it means NOT by a stupid voiceover over a CGI map and pictures and repeat that exact scene 30 minutes later!! Did they have short memory loss syndrome or something? Good God!

Tell me about how the creep Vogel guy was affected psychologivlcally in his 7 years trapped in the island. I was pleasantly surprised when Lara first met him in the tent. He felt crazy and menacing. The scene was tense, Inglorious Basterds' style. Could use more of those.

Add the supernatural angle but keep it minimum and ambiguous so that everything can be explained wether by magic or science or madness. So please no zombies, stone monkeys, etc. That's just cheesy. On the other hand, the curse = disease plot is also lame. Should be more sophisticated than that.

I would also prefer that Lara did not find his father so to add more mysteries around this legend. When I saw she met her father I genuinely hoped it was only hallucination because of the fever she got from getting twig-stabbed on the stomach. It would add dephts to the characters. She can find his hideout all right, first his notes, then his wall scribbles, unfloding his mental state from hopeful then desperation to insanity.

Lara Croft doesn't have an origin story to tell. She's no superhero. She didn't get bitten by a spider or has adamantium planted in her bones. It is unecessary to make explanations of her skills and strenghts. She already IS the Tomb Raider. Everybody knows that. And we love her for that.

Nobody is asking but how can she jump that high? Or how she supposed to know how to shoot arrows? Nobody is asking how can Dominic Toretto win a race driving in reverse while the car is on fire. How did he learn to do that? Did he practiced driving in reverse while the car is on fire when he was young?? See? Nobody cares. He just can and he looked cool doing that.

So let's just tell the interesting parts... THE LEGENDARY TOMBS. THE THRILLS. THE ADVENTURES.