The story goes that she held power over life and death, and one touch from her was enough to kill anyone.
She heads to East Asia, where adventure and danger await. Now she finds clues for what her father was searching when he disappeared and is determined to follow his path. Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) is the daughter of Richard Croft (Dominic West), a famous adventurer who disappeared several years ago. Richard warns Lara to destroy all of his research, but she ignores his warnings so that she can investigate further. There she finds a recorded video message from Richard detailing his research into Himiko, the mythical Queen of Yamatai, who was said to command the power over life and death. Lara reluctantly accepts and gains access to a secret chamber in her father's tomb.
After never claiming her inheritance for many years, believing her father to still be alive, Miller warns Lara that if she does not claim her vast inheritance, her father's country estate, Croft Manor, will be sold off. When she is arrested after a bike accident involving a Police car, Richard's business partner Ana Miller (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) posts her bail. If she survives this perilous adventure, it could be the making of her, earning her the name "tomb raider".įollowing the disappearance of her father, Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West), Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) makes a living as a bike courier. Suddenly, the stakes couldn't be higher for Lara, who, against the odds and armed with only her sharp mind, blind faith, and inherently stubborn spirit, must learn to push herself beyond her limits as she journeys into the unknown. But her mission will not be an easy one just reaching the island will be extremely treacherous. Going explicitly against his final wishes, she leaves everything she knows behind in search of her dad's last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can't understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his mysterious death. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father's global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he's truly gone. Now a young woman of twenty-one without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) is the fiercely independent daughter of eccentric adventurer Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West), who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Lara Croft ( Alicia Vikander), the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she discovers the island where her father, Lord Richard Croft ( Dominic West) disappeared.