Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Orphaned heiress, English aristocrat and intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, embarks on a dangerous quest to retrieve the two halves of an ancient artifact which controls time before it falls into the wrong hands. As an extremely rare planetary alignment is about to occur for the first time in 5,000 years, the fearless tomb raider will have to team up with rival adventurers and sworn enemies to collect the pieces, while time is running out. But, in the end, who can harness the archaic talisman's unlimited power?

Critics were nearly unanimous in dismissing it at release — savaging the plot as incoherent and the action as hollow — with Angelina Jolie's physical charisma standing as the sole point of agreement across positive and negative camps alike. The one major dissenting voice among critics was Roger Ebert, who treated its absurdity as a feature rather than a bug. In the years since, popular retrospective opinion has quietly rehabilitated it as one of the more successful video-game-to-film translations, a judgment that sits in stark contrast to how critics received it in 2001.