The Lost City

Non-original, clichéd almost parody, which after the first third begins to bore incredibly. Basically take the Jungle Expedition, replace The Rock with Channing Tatum, Emily Blunt with Sandra Bullock, add an unrealistic character played by Brad Pitt, a few boring, unnecessary and quota-fulfilling characters, remove the mysterious subtext and cursed conquerors and you have the Lost City. I don't understand why they had to make Tatum a completely incompetent idiot and make Harry Potter the main villain. Almost nothing works here... Only Sandra Bullock looks good and Daniel Radcliffe's English is listenable. (03/26/2022)

An enjoyable spring film packed with great actors, a fine setting and effective humour. I didn't expect much from Lost City and it could be said it is a spring surprise that combines several elements and genres in one, and it all works well together. Sandra Bullock is traditionally excellent as a sexy and smart woman. She plays a successful writer who is kidnapped by a mad millionaire (Daniel Radcliffe) because he thinks she her book describes the path to a lost city and hidden treasure. Sandra is about to be rescued by a bumbling dork played by Channing Tatum (quite possibly his best role ever). He hires Navy Seals Tracker Jack Trainer (Brad Pitt), who deserves his own movie, an unreal badass who has one of the best action scenes of the entire film (surprisingly solid fights!). Plot-wise it's a bit cliched and predictable, but it doesn't really matter that much as the chemistry between Bullock and Tatum works great (their banter is very entertaining, classy, intelligent and never descends into profanity). The whole film has a nice pace with fine action and a decent amount of humour. The jungle setting could have been used better (there are no animals or danger there, unfortunately), and the finale is weaker than the beginning and middle, but I still had a great time and will happily repeat the film. Story 3/5, Action 4/5, Humor 4/5, Violence 1/5, Fun 4/5 Music 3/5, Visuals 4/5, Atmosphere 3/5, Suspense35/5, Emotion 3/5, Actors 4/5. 7.5/10. (04/01/2022)

The Lost City is a well calculated and refined movie that is inoffensive from a commercial point of view and is also quite unexceptional. Sandra Bullock's stony stiff upper lip and perfectly smoothed cheeks distracted me from the plot, as did the utterly pointless villain played by Daniel Radcliffe. However, he does his best despite the bad casting choice. You would be better off watching the excellent Romancing the Stone again, as The Lost City is just polished commercial crap you can easily do without. (03/30/2022)

I love those concepts where a film first makes a huge joke out of genre tropes, then becomes one and gets carried away on the silliness of all the clichés, dialogue and characters. The Lost City goes all-in in this regard, and although the over-the-top self-aware 'I know I'm over-the-top' humour gets annoying after a while, it manages to keep its face. Whether it's because of the boundless adventurous naivety, where everything is a reference to something else in the service of a deliberately unrealistic plot twist, or because of all those A-list actors having so much fun. Bullock is naturally great like in the old days, Tatum enjoys the anti-heroic narcissist more than he did in 21 Jump Street, Radcliffe entertains every second and Pitt reigns supreme in a role that would kick Cliff Booth's ass (though he'd probably lose more than ten percent in the process – inside joke). It’s not something I’d want to see a second time, but I'd love a spin-off with Jack Trainer. 65 % (03/24/2022)

The chase for an idiot. Mocking romance novels by having the main sapiosexual heroine fall for her simple-minded counterpart right around the time she's removing leeches from his sexy behind is outrageous! When he starts kissing her at the end, it's like he's kissing someone's mom! Which gravity-defying producer allowed this cuddling with Magic Channing? The joke died after the initial meeting with the readers, the romantic-adventure storyline goes straight into the plastic waste bin, and Radcliffe's villain could easily lie down among kittens during a TV break. The Lost City? More like lost time. (06/07/2022)