The key to becoming invested in the film – despite its overall familiarity and lack of any genuine surprise or originality – is Vikander’s natural performance, and her commitment to the physical requirements of the role. She’s the reason Tomb Raider isn’t a complete waste of time.

It’s too comfortable supplying the bare-minimum to an audience it knows wants nothing more than that. And perhaps that’s fine. But that being said, it could so easily have been so much worse. Video game movies still have a long way to go, unfortunately. Tomb Raider is hardly the Wonder Woman it should have been, but there’s hope yet.

‘Tomb Raider’ does enough to reignite the franchise onscreen by giving its protagonist a timely and relevant overhaul to confidently launch Alicia Vikander as this generation’s Lara Croft.

Despite making big bucks, Angelina Jolie’s two-film series are far from being counted among the memorable action films of Hollywood. The emphasis back then was on the fights, which Jolie immortalised as Lara Croft. Vikander brings in a youthful, millennial vibe to the character and the focus sharply – and still – remains on the action sequences, which is tactfully executed, no doubt. But this was a second chance for the film to go beyond and set things right in other departments, but it ends up being a cinematic manifestation of the proverbial saying – old habits, die hard.