Angelina Jolie's Insight

Oscar award-winning actress Angelina Jolie has wrapped up a week of filming on the computer game-inspired movie ``Tomb Raider'' at Cambodia's famous Angkor Wat temple complex.

``It's the most amazing place I've ever been to in my life,'' Jolie said of the 12th century temples, located 220 kilometers (135 miles) northwest of the capital, Phnom Penh.

The movie, a Paramount Pictures release, is the first North American production to be filmed in Cambodia since the country was torn apart by more than two decades of war and unrest beginning in 1970 during the Vietnam War.

Jolie stars as Lara Croft, a feisty heroine on a sexy quest to save the world.

``The world is a lot bigger than I thought it was,'' said Jolie, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her work in last year's `'Girl, Interrupted.''

``I got to explore a lot, see a lot and to learn a lot,'' she said at a news conference late Wednesday. ``The world I live in most of the time is very, very small. Hollywood is very ugly. They're all worrying about the wrong things, about being beautiful.''

Lara Croft originally debuted in 1996 as the leading virtual lady of an interactive video game which has since generated 500 million dollars in sales.

Jolie, who described her character as ``having a strong sense of justice,'' said she and Lara Croft ``were not that far apart.'' She said two words describe Lara Croft: ``wicked fun.''

The movie marks the first time that Jolie has acted in a film with her father, Jon Voight, who stars as Lord Croft, Lara's father.