The Lost City
2022
***
Director: Adam Nee, Aaron Nee
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Brad Pitt, Héctor Aníbal, Thomas Forbes-Johnson, Oscar Nunez
When a smart but reclusive romance-adventure novelist is kidnapped by a nasty treasure-hunting millionaire, her book's slow-witted cover model goes out to rescue her. This entertaining adventure comedy by the Nee brothers was heavily influenced by Romancing the Stone, the beloved 1984 classic about another lonely novelist who finds romance while trudging through the jungle with a man who couldn't be more different than she is. The movie is funny, and it sometimes fulfils and other times subverts expectations, although there are certainly no surprises in the will-they-won't-they stakes. Brad Pitt and Daniel Radcliffe appear in amusing supporting roles.
