Cards on the table: For reasons I can't really fathom, I made the choice to watch "The Lost City" for the first time after seeing "Rrr" earlier that same day. As such, I can't help but suspect that I came away being harder on the Nee Brothers' fluffy, harmless "Romancing the Stone" throwback than I might've been, had I not just experienced S. S. Rajamouli's superb maximalist epic.
That's not to suggest "The Lost City" (which /Film's Hoai-Tran Bui reviewed here) doesn't deserve to be dragged a little. It's a derivative rom-com adventure film that's mostly content to float by on a blend of Channing Tatum's himbo charms and his screwball hijinks with Sandra Bullock, complete with action scenes and visuals that are par for the course for a lot of recent Hollywood tentpoles (read: under-lit and done with minimum effort compared to those in "Rrr"). Bless him,...
That's not to suggest "The Lost City" (which /Film's Hoai-Tran Bui reviewed here) doesn't deserve to be dragged a little. It's a derivative rom-com adventure film that's mostly content to float by on a blend of Channing Tatum's himbo charms and his screwball hijinks with Sandra Bullock, complete with action scenes and visuals that are par for the course for a lot of recent Hollywood tentpoles (read: under-lit and done with minimum effort compared to those in "Rrr"). Bless him,...
- 10/28/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
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