Cinema designed for the general public deserves greater respect when it fools no one. Although the poster or the images of the trailer can be misleading -there are marketing maneuvers that extol aspects that are barely present in the film-, rarely does an American comedy starring Hollywood faces give a poke to the devoted viewer. ‘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 verve, playing an unexpected villain in the antipodes of Harry Potter. The almost debutant brothers Adam Nee and Aaron Nee (‘Band of Robbers’) conduct the song, whose trade is intuited, without complicating their existence. The story begins by introducing a writer of successful romantic novels, 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.
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Bullock embodies the best-selling writer, in her usual line, while Tatum -a reflection of the new masculinities?- interprets the model that embodies his creation, as bold as he is reckless. In an unexpected twist, the protagonist, plunged into tedium, 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 transcends the role of the books described in 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.
‘The Lost City’ applies the millionaire genre film scheme that worked in the past to review it with humor. Whether the formula has a place or not, to this day, is up to the box office, but the feeling is that we are facing a healthy recovery maneuver of the escape cinema with colorings and additives, aware of the concept, which handles clichés with gibberish. for your benefit without headaches. Closer to ‘After the Green Heart’ than to ‘In Search of the Lost Ark’, with ‘Jungle Cruise’ close in time, it retells, with special wit, 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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