Jonathan Reiss

Jonathan Reiss is the main villain in the live action film Tomb Raider the Cradle of Life.

Reiss is a very rich bioterrorist who's on the search for a sphere that is supposed to leed the way to find the legendary pandora's box. In the mean time Lara Croft is on the search for it as well and with her is Terry Sheridan a former mercenary. Knowing about her he sends mercenaries to kill her in china where he finally gets to possess the sphere but failing to kill Lara. The sphere ultimatley leads him to Africa where he meets again with Lara and takes her hostage along with some members of a tribe that know where pandora's box is, and it indicates the box is in the Kilimanjaro. He has some people of the tribe lead the way until they arrive upon a valley where they encounter creatures called shadow monsters. Lara steels the sphere of Reiss and throws it down a hole that kills the creatures and dissolves the ground around them, leading them directley inside the cave of pandora's box with the object being in the center of a pool of acid. Following a climactic fistfight between Lara and Reiss, Reiss is knocked into the acid pool by Lara after he is distracted by Terry.