The Lost City

The Lost City

Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to the ancient city's lost treasure that featured in her latest story. Alan, determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, sets off to rescue her.

  • Released: 2022-03-24
  • Runtime: 112 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
  • Stars: Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Brad Pitt, Patti Harrison, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Oscar Núñez, Raymond Lee, Thomas Forbes-Johnson, Héctor Aníbal, Katherine Montes, Danny Radhames Vasquez Castillo, Adam Nee, Bowen Yang, Sli Lewis, Olga Bucarelli, Omar Patin, Anthony Alvarez, Ryan Orr, Alex Schoenauer, Edwin Polanco, Marcy Jarreau, Cynthia Oroz, Carolina Rohana, Jonathan Lev, Toussaint Merionne, Luinis Olaverria, Emerson Gonzalez, Wilson Ureña, Roger Wasserman, Stephen Lang, Ryan Judd, Zachary Steel, Marcos Sánchez, Zain Ullah, Joan Pringle, Ryan Orr
  • Director: Aaron Nee, Adam Nee
 Comments
  • Cheajk - 13 January 2023
    Infantile
    Never thought I'd describe Romancing the Stone as the intellectual's version of anything, but here we are. This is the 80 IQ version of a not even particularly classic movie.

    I'd like to hear from older directors about what's changed between then and now that makes movies so bad. It feels like this was made by someone who hates their audience.

    I guess the bar will just keep getting lower as global society spirals towards idiocracy. Come back in 30 years for TLC 2.

    Brad Pitt's character kung fu throws some guy while wearing a tactical vest. After the scifi helicopter and fighter jets get brought out. Makes RTS look like a travel documentary of Columbia.

    Again, it feels like whatever conglomeration made this movie is deliberately humiliating the audience. Ha ha ha, we will put crap on a screen, and you will eat it. Reminds me of the 2016 Ghostbusters movie. One childish improv line after the other.
  • drewvogelaar - 12 December 2022
    The Cast is the Star
    The Lost City was everywhere. You couldn't watch television or go on the internet without seeing an advertisement for this film. Then all of a sudden, it was gone. I didn't hear anything about it. It was like the film straight-up disappeared. It didn't seem like something I would pay to see in theaters, so It just slipped through the cracks. Then while going back through films released this year, I realized I never ended up watching this film. So I dusted off the ole pen and pencil and went to work.

    The Lost City's strength is the all-star cast and the chemistry of its lead roles. The highlight of this movie is the performance of Daniel Radcliffe. Radcliffe plays the film's villain in another performance that makes him one of my favorite actors of the past twenty years. For the small amount of screen time, Brad Pitt makes the most of it. He is easily one of the funniest parts of this movie, and it would be a much lower-rated film without him. Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum are also great as the lead characters. The chemistry their characters build throughout the film makes the film's second half bearable. What the film lacks is consistency. The first half caught my attention, and I was fully invested. By the second half, much of my attention had been lost due to a slow script. It makes me upset I was bored by the second half because when Daniel Radcliffe reenters the film, I really wanted to be excited for him, but I just couldn't.

    7/10 A harmless, fun action-comedy that's missing something to make it great.