Sandra Bullock continues to perform at the box office. Here she tries to recover the adventure cinema that Spielberg and company once exalted with humor as a lifeline
The cinema designed for the general public deserves greater respect when it does not deceive anyone. Although the poster or the images of the trailer can be misleading -there are marketing maneuvers that extol aspects that are hardly present in the film-, rarely does an American comedy starring Hollywood faces give the dedicated viewer a cat for a hare. ‘The Lost City’ moves in these terms, parodying the adventure genre without losing its commercial intentions at the service of three profitable presences in the credits: Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum and a spectacular cameo by Brad Pitt.
The presence of the latter is no longer a surprise, such a funny trick is lost due to the publicity weight of the promotional advances, but Daniel Radcliffe also shines on stage with brio, playing an unexpected villain in the antipodes of Harry Potter. Directing the theme are the almost debuting brothers Adam Nee and Aaron Nee (‘Band of Robbers’), whose trade is intuited, without complicating existence. The story begins by presenting a successful romantic novel writer, whose buoyant literary career has been based on inventing love stories in exotic places, always starring a leading man who, curiously, has her correspondence in real life.
Bullock plays the best-selling writer, in her usual line, while Tatum -a reflection of the new masculinities?- plays the model that personifies his creation, as bold as he is reckless. In an unexpected twist, the protagonist, mired in boredom, is kidnapped by a subject obsessed with finding an ancient treasure that apparently appears in the profitable prose of the writer -sparkling Radcliffe-. Thus begins an adventure that goes beyond the role of the books described in the fiction itself, giving rise to a comedy with action scenes that can be enjoyed with the right mental chip in the skin of an unprejudiced cinematographic voyeur.
Daniel Radcliffe in ‘The Lost City’.
‘The Lost City’ applies the millionaire genre film scheme that worked in the past to revise it with humor. Whether the formula has a place or not, today, is the decision of the box office, but the feeling is that we are facing a healthy maneuver to recover escape cinema with colorants and additives, aware of the concept, which handles topics with gibberish for your benefit without headaches. Closer to ‘Tras el corazón verde’ than to ‘Raiders of the lost ark’, with ‘Jungle Cruise’ close in time, it retells, with special grace, the story of two people, a man and a woman -the strange couple-, who get lost in the jungle and have to understand each other and resolve their differences in order to survive. Basically, a classic.
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