Move over Angelina Jolie / Lara Croft

Rating: 8/10 (29 October 2010)

Chloe Moretz is exceptional as Hit Girl. Frankly they mis labelled the film. She has the chutzpah of Hermione in the Harry Potter films, with serious attitude and moves to boot.
She makes Angelina Jolie / Lara Croft look, dare I say it, old and slow.
It's really her film, and appropriate that the A-list talent, Nicolas Cage, plays her father, not the 'hero's'.
It's remarkable that the film scores so highly, and a tribute to its peak moments, because the general pacing makes Hannah Montana look racy - long long long voice-over throughout the movie.
We got it, gawky teen, can we move on please.
Yeah, it's good, in fact it's very good, a bronze olympic medal, but it could have been gold. Despite my title, Tomb Raider, and The Matrix - for example - show true craftsmanship. This was highly watchable, occasionally and momentarily brilliant, but in the end too much like rehearsing lines, rather than delivering the play, or practising notes rather than performing a song: snippets and hints of genius and beauty, but too disjointed to leave you with the pleasure and after effect of a a truly great movie.