Trivia
- One of Angelina Jolie's stunt doubles was a man.
- In the scene where Lara Croft and partner jump off a building with "flying suits" on, the stunt was performed by the two men who invented the suits. No CGI, wires, nets, or other SFX were involved. This suit was invented by Patrick de Gayardon who was killed in parachute accident in April 1998 during testing of a new parachute type in Hawaii.
- At one point in the movie, Lara Croft attacks a bad guy using very sophisticated movements with an antique rifle. Her movements are taken from Queen Anne Salute used by the U.S. Army Drill Team.
- The film was banned in China because "it damaged China's reputation, giving the impression of a country in chaos, with no government and over-run by secret societies".
- The skin on Lara's upper left arm is rarely seen exposed in this film. Angelina Jolie sports a large tattoo on her upper left bicep which requires make-up to cover up. The fact her left arm is rarely bared in this film (her opening scene in a bikini is shot in such a way her RIGHT arm, not her left, dominates) may be due to criticism that the tattoo was sometimes poorly concealed in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
- Initial trailers and publicity material credited the story to producer Lloyd Levin and production designer Kirk M. Petruccelli, as well as James V. Hart. However, just before the film was released the WGA decided to credit the story to Hart and Steven E. de Souza.
- In the previous film, Angelina Jolie had to wear bra padding in order for her bust size to measure up to the videogame character's. Jolie wears considerably less (and possibly no) padding in this film, as the decision was made to give Lara more realistic dimensions.
- At the time of the film's release, Angelina Jolie said she had no desire to play the character a third time. Nonetheless, some planning for a third feature was undertaken until early 2004 when the studio announced plans for another Lara Croft film starring Jolie had been cancelled.
- Just as in the first film, there are several scenes in which the live-action Lara mimics the computer game version, in particular a scene in which she climbs around a pagoda and pole-vaults to a helicopter. She also takes a nasty fall as the animated Lara was prone to do.
- When Lara Croft first meets up with Terry Sheridan at his Barla Kala prison cell, "DOBRO POZHALOVAT" (Welcome) is carved on the cell wall.
- The episode of SpongeBob SquarePants playing on the television is "Jellyfishing" from the first season of the show.
- Robson Green read for this film
Goofs
- During Lara and Kosa's Jeep ride to Mt. Kilamanjaro, we see the Jeep getting covered with mud, yet when they arrive at the village the Jeep is clean.
- Lara's face is forced down onto broken glass by Reiss' henchman Sean causing her to bleed on the table. When she comes up there are no marks, scratches or blood on her face.
- When Lara is kissing Terry on the boat, a piece of tape is visible holding up her towel.
- Lara cuts her arm to attract a shark, but later when she is picked up by a submarine, her wetsuit's arm is unmarred.
- When Lara and Terry are on motorbikes riding cross country or on gravel roads, but tire squeals are heard.
- When Lara Croft is climbing up the ladder onto the boat near the beginning of the movie, she reaches the top while saying, "Hello, boys. You're all wet." In the next shot, she is still climbing the ladder and hasn't reached the top yet.
- When Lara reaches the boat at the beginning of the film, two men on the boat reach out and one grabs her hand. In the next shot, she is too far below for them to reach her. Next, when Lara is climbing up the boat ladder, she steps up to the top and stands up fully. In the next shot, she is further down and stepping up again.
- When Lara is shooting targets on horseback, she is shown riding sidesaddle, after the helicopter flies over she is riding astride, which is impossible on a sidesaddle.
- During the Shadow Guardian sequence a soldier that wets himself is killed by one of the beasts. A few shots later he re-appears.
- When Lara is hit by Terry on the Cradle of Life cavern, she has drop of blood on her chin, but in the next shot it isn't there. We see her the whole time and she doesn't wipe it off.
- Sharks don't have vocal cords.
- Upon surfacing from the Lunar temple, Lara turns on a beacon. It is not on her shoulder throughout the temple sequence until Lara cuts her arm before diving out of the temple.
- Lara claims that the Lunar Temple on Santorini was buried in a volcanic eruption around 333 BC. In fact, the explosion that destroyed most of Santorini has been dated to about 1645 BC.
- When Lara is in the Luna temple getting the orb from the ceiling there are fingerprints on the base which holds the orb before she even touches anything around it. Also the finger prints are on the opposite side than where she rolls up to.
- When Lara is fighting the guy where all the terracotta warriors are, she throws two sticks at him pinning him to a large crate. But he was standing nowhere near a crate when she initially threw them.
- When Lara and Terry land on the ship, their parachutes are supposed to come down after them. However, in the next shot they have completely disappeared
- The episode of SpongeBob SquarePants playing on the television has one minute edited from the middle of it.
- When Lara shoots the computers in Reiss' lab, she only shoots the monitors. All this does is stop displaying what the computer is doing. A knowledgeable woman like Lara should know to shoot the processor, not the monitor.
Crazy Credits
- The opening logos for Paramount and Mutual Films are projected onto water.
- During the end credits, the names rolling through the center arehighlighted.
Memorable Quotes
Kosa: Do you ever do anything the easy way?
Lara Croft: And risk disappointing you?
[Deciding who should jump off first]
Terry Sheridan: Right, you go first.
Lara Croft: No, you go first.
[Thugs shoot at them]
Lara Croft: I'll go first.
Terry Sheridan: The Shay-Ling are like ghosts, Croft. They move constantly, and their home is the most remote mountain region in China.
Lara Croft: Region? You'll have to do better than that.
Terry Sheridan: Get me into China, and I'll get you to them in a day.
Lara Croft: No guns, no money, no weapons of any kind.
Terry Sheridan: Talk about taking the fun out of life.
Lara Croft: You need to take me to the Shay-Ling.
Terry Sheridan: They Shay who?
Lara Croft: There's a man named Chen Lo who took something from me, and I want it back.
[Lara pulls out a key]
Terry Sheridan: What? Key to your heart?
Lara Croft: Something wrong?
Gus Petraki: First, Alexander doesn't record the temple's location. Then God wipes it from the earth with a volcano. Now even the currents change. Lara, maybe this temple's not meant to be found.
Lara Croft: Everything lost is meant to be found. Don't worry.
Nicholas Petraki: Hey, Lara, what do you say to two handsome Greek partners?
Lara Croft: Well, when you find two, let me know!
Lara Croft: Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs. Yin and Yang. Right and Wrong. Men and Women. What's pleasure without pain.
Agent Stevens: ...but we'll assign two of our best agents to help.
Lara Croft: I don't want them.
Agent Calloway: With all due respect, expertise in archaeology doesn't...
Lara Croft: I didn't say that I don't need help, but your agents will never get me to Chen Lo in time. I need an insider, someone who knows the Shay-Ling. Their methods, their hideouts. I need Terry Sheridan.
Lara Croft: A bit rusty, are we?
Terry Sheridan: Oh, I think it's coming back.
Lara Croft: I expected more from a Scot.
Terry Sheridan: I don't expect anything from an Englishwoman.
Terry Sheridan: The Shay-Ling have spies all over China. We have to get into the country undetected. So, we slip into Beijing, and we go by truck.
Lara Croft: Truck? Hmm. I was thinking about something a little faster...
Terry Sheridan: So, where do I fit in?
Lara Croft: What do you mean? You're the guide.
Terry Sheridan: I mean, when you think back on the vast scheme of your hugely adventurous life... where do I fit in? Was I the love of your life, or just another bump on the road? Was I time well spent? Four months? More good than bad? Come on, it had to be more than that, am I right?
Lara Croft: You're right. It was five months.
Terry Sheridan: Fun's over. From now on, it's by foot. Best to reconsider that "no gun" rule.
Lara Croft: No.
Terry Sheridan: Okay.
[Lara pulls out her gun, points it at Terry]
Lara Croft: I'm sorry to have to do this, but you're wasting time.
Terry Sheridan: You want to shoot me? Shoot me. Personally, I'd rather you do it... than them.
[the Shay Ling appear from the mountains]
Terry Sheridan: You wanted to find the Shay-Ling. The only way to get into their place is as their prisoners.
Lara Croft: Hmm. You might have told me that little gem before.
Terry Sheridan: Were you really going to killme?
[Approaching] Chen Lo: Oh, I bet she would have.
Terry Sheridan: Just like old times. (Lara laughs) I think that's the first time you've actually smiled because of me.
Lara Croft: Why did you do it?
Terry Sheridan: I started thinking. I was tired of doing things somebody else's way, and it was always going be somebody else's way.
Lara Croft: So, you abandon you're men and betray your country?
Terry Sheridan: Leaving my men and my country, that didn't actually hurt as much as I thought. But leaving you did.
Lara Croft: Mm.
Terry Sheridan: You're a hard act to follow, Croft. You know why you and I get along so well?
[Laughs] Lara Croft: No.
Terry Sheridan: We are two of a kind, me and you.
[Laughs harder] Lara Croft: We are nothing alike.
Terry Sheridan: I don't think we're alike, but I do think we're a pair. Opposite sides of the same coin.
Terry Sheridan: Are you okay?
Lara Croft: Never better.
Terry Sheridan: Looks like we lost the orb.
Lara Croft: Please. You don't think I'd go vaulting into thin air for nothing, do you? I put a tracer on the crate.
[Pulls out a tracing receiver]
Lara Croft: Got it. Look.
Terry Sheridan: Impressive.
Terry Sheridan: I don't suppose either of you know how to fly a helicopter?
Bryce: I can.
Terry Sheridan: What?
Hillary: What...?
Bryce: Yeah. I've got over 150 hours between flight simulation games, models.
Terry Sheridan: And in the real thing?
Bryce: Two.
Terry Sheridan: Two? Well, you're only going to fly it once I'm out, so I hope you remember your two hours well.
[last lines]
[Bryce and Hillary are getting made over by tribes people]
Bryce: Lara, are you okay?
Hillary: Lara, you all right?
[smiling]
Lara Croft: This is... very touching.
Bryce: You know us, always making friends... having a laugh.
Lara Croft: Getting married.
Bryce: What?
Kosa: This is a wedding ceremony and you are the grooms.
Lara Croft: Good luck, boys.
[Walking up a hill]
Terry Sheridan: And don't be looking at my ***.
[Upon hearing word that the queen insists Lara retrieves the orb]
Lara Croft: Well, now that I have Her Majesty's permission...
Lara Croft: Remember that "no gun" rule? I reconsidered!
Kosa: Can't you ever do anything the easy way?
Lara Croft: I wouldn't want to disappoint you.
[after Lara and Terry leap off the roof of a skyscraper]
Sean: Holy cow!
[to his henchmen]
Sean: Go after her.
[first lines]
Jimmy Petraki: They found another one. There's going to be no treasure left by the time she gets here.
Terry Sheridan: This is a little faster. But the Chinese will track the pod.
Lara Croft: There won't be any pod to find.
Terry Sheridan: Will there be any of us to find?
Terry Sheridan: You're laughing at ne.
Lara Croft: No, at the fact that I used to find you charming.
Terry Sheridan: I am charming.
[Terry enters the room and places his hand on Lara's shoulder. She turns, her hand on his wrist]
Terry Sheridan: You can break my wrist... but I'm still gonna kiss you.
[they kiss. Minutes later Lara handcuffs Terry's hand to the bed post]
Terry Sheridan: Not quite what I had in mind, but... OK.
Lara Croft: Why didn't you shoot Reiss?
Lara Croft: Some things were not meant to be found.
[welcoming Lara at Terry's prison]
Armin Kal: Welcome to Fantasy Island, my name's Armin Kal and I'll be your guide!
Terry Sheridan: Now does that make me Faust or the Devil?
Lara Croft: Well you can pick one, because MI6 is also arranging for a new iden***.
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