Sandra Bullock continues to perform at the box office. Here he tries to get back the adventure cinema Spielberg and his company once raised with humor as a lifeline
The cinema designed for the general public deserves more respect if it does not deceive anyone. While the poster or trailer images can be misleading—there are marketing ploys that glorify aspects barely present in the film—an American comedy with Hollywood faces rarely gives the devoted viewer a cat for a hare. Moving in these terms, ‘The Lost City’ parodies the adventure genre without losing its commercial intent in the service of three profitable closing credits presences: Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum and a spectacular cameo from Brad Pitt.
The presence of the latter is no longer a surprise, such a funny trick is lost to the publicity weight of the promotional opinions, but Daniel Radcliffe also shines with brilliance on stage, playing an unexpected villain in the antipodes of Harry Potter. The theme is the almost debuting brothers Adam Nee and Aaron Nee (“Band of Robbers”), whose craft is intuitive, without making life complicated. The story begins by presenting a successful romantic novelist, whose flourishing literary career is based on concocting love stories in exotic places, always starring a protagonist 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 masculinity? – plays the model who personifies his creation, as bold as it is reckless. In an unexpected twist, the main character, caught up in boredom, is kidnapped by a subject obsessed with finding an ancient treasure that apparently features in the writer’s lucrative prose -sparkling Radcliffe-. Thus begins an adventure that goes beyond the role of the books described in the fiction itself, giving rise to an action-scene comedy that can be enjoyed with the right mental chip in the skin of an unbiased cinematic voyeur.
‘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 today or not is the decision of the box office, but the feeling is that we are in for a healthy maneuver to restore the escape cinema with dyes and additives, aware of the concept, which treats subjects with gibberish for your benefit without any worries. Closer to ‘Tras el corazón verde’ than to ‘Raiders of the lost ark’, with ‘Jungle Cruise’ close in time, it tells with special grace the story of two people, a man and a woman -the strange couple- , who get lost in the jungle and need to understand each other and resolve their differences in order to survive. In short, a classic.
Source: La Verdad
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