March 14, 2018 - 10:32 AM
In "Tomb Raider ," which has elements of "Indiana Jones," ''Batman" and even "Tron: Legacy," but with an angsty young woman at the centre instead of an angsty young man, Alicia Vikander takes a lot of beatings. She is punched in the face, and in the stomach, she is thrown against rocks and sent careening through a forest, she is impaled, hit by a car, left in an impossible one-handed dead hang at least four times, and she is choked, really choked, by both men and women alike.