Kurt here again. How do you like your Angelina Jolie? Hacking the Gibson under the name of Acid Burn? Wailing about her lost son in a cloche hat? Wooing the Hollywood Foreign Press opposite Johnny Depp in Venice? Please. You like her kicking ass, and with respect to fans of Wanted, she's really never done it better than in Tomb Raider, the underrated video game adap that houses what we can probably call her signature performance.
All of 24 when she shot the movie, Angie wasn't yet Salt skeletal, and still had some of those Gia curves to flaunt. She gets her chance when director Simon West shoots her in a post-training shower scene, where she washes off the sweat worked up from emptying clips into a killer robot.
I love this scene because it's so freaking gratuitous. West might argue that he included it to help humanize Lara Croft (tomb raiders need showers, too!), but we all know it has the same objective as a Maxim cover shoot. And who's arguing, anyway?
I'm still of the mind that Angie is the most perfectly put together female on the globe, and this scene might just mark the peak of that perfectly-put-togetherness.
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The highlight of the fleshy excess is when Angie does a wicked hair flip that no sane person, tomb raider or otherwise, would do without a camera watching. But, again, we have no complaints.
After her shoot shower, Miss Lara scoffs at a frilly sun dress offered to her by her butler and keeps a-strutting toward the bedroom. She tosses off her towel, leading to a half-boob shot that I imagine plenty of horny folks replayed a lot more times than I did to get this screen grab.
"I'm only trying to turn you into a lady," the butler says, still holding the dress. "And a lady should be modest."
So much for that.
previous April Showers: Pierce Brosnan, Bill Murray, Marlon Brando, Jeremy Renner, Will Smith, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Milla Jovovich and Leonardo DiCaprio.