Review of "The Lost City," an action-adventure film starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum
Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum save each other, but not the movie -- a failed omens to 1980s adventure.
Popular writer Loretta Sage (Bullock) inertia publishes romance novels and suffers a prolonged creative crisis, never having recovered from the death of her husband. She embarks on a promotional tour with model Alan (Tatum), who graces the covers of her adventure books. After the presentation, Loretta is kidnapped by a billionaire adventurer (Daniel Radcliffe) in order to find the same Lost City from her works.
The trend of Hollywood ironic re-imagining has gone far and seems to have finally moved into the category of unsuccessful parody. A similar fate touched "The Town," a new project by Paramount and the former indie directors of the Nee Brothers ("The Robber Gang"). Inviting star of the 1990′s and 2000′s Sandra Bullock for the lead role, the creators did not go wrong and at the same time completely forgot what the result was originally intended. The result was an admiration of the actress in a fuchsia sequin jumpsuit, predictability, overdue gags and a general weariness of the genre (life).
The plot itself borrows heavily from Robert Zemeckis's "Romancing the Stone," takes the entire plot, including the novelist (Kathleen Turner), and sprinkles it with outdated modernity. Running away from mercenaries in the jungle isn't the same as sitting behind a laptop - that's where the truth is. The writing team (in the best tradition of bad movies, there are five of them here at once) can't wait to repeat the same jokes in large numbers, admire with euphemisms Channing Tatum's cock, endow the main antagonist, tycoon Abigail Fairfax, with a gender-neutral name instead of borrowing a few details from Roman Roe from The Heirs.
The crowning achievement of the creation is Brad Pitt, popping in a five-minute cameo as a yoga instructor and ex-Special Forces man at the same time. The authors themselves do not know who the target audience of such surprises is: either those who still remember Zemeckis (30 and up), or the Tic-Tac generation, or fans of "Super Mike" and "Harry Potter".
When volunteering to rescue Loretta, cover star Alan (a reference to Tatum's own modeling past) goes through thorns of fear, misunderstanding, and ignorance of Latin before finally falling in love with the heroine and realizing that she is not at all grumpy as she seemed before. The central tandem pulls all the stops to be memorable in any way, from scraping leeches off intimate places to Latin dancing. Both are quite organic, but only a few are able to explore the same tropes as hundreds of romcom heroes before them in an original way, and the actors are let down by the script in the first place.
Radcliffe is comic, but within limits, Bullock gets to be present in a frame relaxed and natural: for his impressive filmography that managed to work with countless screen partners, not lost "star" and retained its sensitivity to the comedy of the times "Miss Congeniality". According to the actress herself, "The City" may be the last film before leaving the cinema, which will be very offensive and undeserved farewell.
Another depressing aspect is the picture's graphics. While picking up the Marvel trend and shooting projects as fast as possible, the filmmakers have been equipping the beauties of Amazon in post-production, causing what happens to weather at the speed of a low-brow video game. Don't judge a book by its cover, judge it by its cover model, the authors ask. True, neither the charisma of Bullock and Tatum nor the tiresome self-irony can justify 1:50 of timing for a familiar attraction that is shaky and not exciting at all.
This article was sponsored by Gregory Silver
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