The Lost City (2022)

The Lost City (2022)

 

5/10

Starring

Sandra Bullock
Channing Tatum
Daniel Radcliffe

Directed by Adam and Aaron Nee

The Lost City is one silly version of 1984’s Romancing the Stone (Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner) mixed with a little drop of Indian Jones vibe. The movie does not cut it when it comes to Romancing the Stone even though it tried hard to be worth my time.

I think I am fed up with romantic comedies where the guy happens to be a hunk who must save the girl from her feminist view of life of being independent and alone. Why do these stories always have to end with the sexy looking hunk getting the girl in the end? Is not that this movie could have had it another way because that was the basic setup of this movie.

The guy who didn’t have feelings for the girl in the first place but was so dumb that he just wanted to be her friend, ends up with the woman who wanted nothing to do with this guy. Wow, let me see where have we seen that story setup before? Answer, like every other romantic movie of such settings.

Then we have this couple go on an expedition, to find the lost treasure that happens to be lost and no-one knows where to find it, from there they fall in love.

Let’s flesh out this movie and add some complications to it. The lady in question is Loretta (Sandra Bullock), a successful, widow and depressed best-selling romance novelist. Who is going through a writers block as she tries to complete one more novel about her hero character Dash and his romantic adventures. The cover model for her book is Alan (Channing Tatum) who lives an unrealistic existence. Cause I have never ever heard of cover models being so involved in the writing of a book. His existence in fact has him featuring in the writer’s book tour and even has a speaking relationship with the writer. From what I know about book publishing that is not true.

Her books feature much archaeologist research which she did with her husband. The rich eccentric bad guy, Fairfax (Daniel Radcliffe) has been looking for a treasure called Crown of Fire and buys an island believing to be where the treasure is located. He sees Lorretta’s book and sees the archaeologist mentions, he kidnaps her because of the seven billion people on this planet, this author is the only person he could find who could translate the artefact (document).

In the end the movie did not in my case meet up and even though the romance was there I could not see why it mattered at all for it to be there.

The Lost City (2022)

 

5/10

 

Starring

 

The Lost City is one silly version of 1984’s Romancing the Stone (Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner) mixed with a little drop of Indian Jones vibe. The movie does not cut it when it comes to Romancing the Stone even though it tried hard to be worth my time.

I think I am fed up with romantic comedies where the guy happens to be a hunk who must save the girl from her feminist view of life of being independent and alone. Why do these stories always have to end with the sexy looking hunk getting the girl in the end? Is not that this movie could have had it another way because that was the basic setup of this movie.

The guy who didn’t have feelings for the girl in the first place but was so dumb that he just wanted to be her friend, ends up with the woman who wanted nothing to do with this guy. Wow, let me see where have we seen that story setup before? Answer, like every other romantic movie of such settings.

Then we have this couple go on an expedition, to find the lost treasure that happens to be lost and no-one knows where to find it, from there they fall in love.

Let’s flesh out this movie and add some complications to it. The lady in question is Loretta (Sandra Bullock), a successful, widow and depressed best-selling romance novelist. Who is going through a writers block as she tries to complete one more novel about her hero character Dash and his romantic adventures. The cover model for her book is Alan (Channing Tatum) who lives an unrealistic existence. Cause I have never ever heard of cover models being so involved in the writing of a book. His existence in fact has him featuring in the writer’s book tour and even has a speaking relationship with the writer. From what I know about book publishing that is not true.

Her books feature much archaeologist research which she did with her husband. The rich eccentric bad guy, Fairfax (Daniel Radcliffe) has been looking for a treasure called Crown of Fire and buys an island believing to be where the treasure is located. He sees Lorretta’s book and sees the archaeologist mentions, he kidnaps her because of the seven billion people on this planet, this author is the only person he could find who could translate the artefact (document).

In the end the movie did not in my case meet up and even though the romance was there I could not see why it mattered at all for it to be there.