StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

esongw This is definitely not a perfect movie, but several themes and elements of it will stay with me for a while. It strays away from the typical adventure movie formula, which often feeds a colonialist attitude towards unknown lands. The film instead undermines this trope, opting for a personal, spiritual look into the protagonist's obsessive journey to lands surrounding the Amazon. This is not merely a quest to find a lost city, but one that questions numerous aspects of our lives - family, marriage, social culture, mortality - and pushes for a meaningful outlook. With such a wide range of themes to touch upon, the movie can feel meandering and sluggish, but the impact of this one stayed with me long after its beautiful ending shot.

krocheav Director/Producer/Writer James Gray certainly takes on complex subjects - giving himself some difficult tasks as well as a challenge for his distributors. As with his lushly detailed 'The Immigrant' in'13, 'The Lost City of Z' presents us with a series of dazzling images from prolific director of photography Darius Khondji, to grace this haunting, factual, unsolved expedition into the jungles of Peru. The title (while accurate) may be an unwise choice as it suggests a silly Indiana Jones type adventure yarn - and that, this high quality, serious, movie is defiantly not. This feeling can be picked up through the tone of some unkind viewer comments from those only wanting cheap action fiction. Superb locations, performances, and a lush music score all contribute to an engaging cinema experience. While the movie is quite longish (though, fully sustained) one curious problem re-occurs in several sections - that the film looks as it may have been edited from a longer narrative via pre or post-production cuts. If this were the case then it would explain some odd continuity gaps tending to leave the viewer to fathom out some unexplained time shifts. Otherwise, it's always compelling and offers totally professional production values to recommend it to the discerning viewer.

tstudstrup One of the most boring movies I have ever seen. Charlie Hunnam is a terrible actor. At least this time, we don't have to suffer through him trying to fail at an american accent. Robert Pattinson is obvilusly trying to shed his Twilight image. Unfortunetely for him he is not nearly as good an actor as Daniel Radcliffe. And he is giving nothing to work with in this crap. He only accomplishes being almost unrecognizable with a huge beard and glasses. I dont know what kind of man the real Fawcett was, but he's not very likeable. He choses, time and time again, to leave his wife and kids, to look for a city in the Amazones, that will prove that a civilization was there, long before our own. He already has a small boy, before he goes on his first expedition to map the Amazones in order to clear his fathers name. I know these were different times, but why he cares what some old snobbish a-holes thinks of his father and why that is more important to him than his own family, is beyond me. He then porks his wife and leaves. He comes back, porks his wife again and goes on one more expedition. After he comes back from his second expedition, he now has three kids. Then WW1 breaks out. He considers it his duty to serve and once again put his own honour and country before his family. His eldest son is understandably pissed at him for deserting his family again and again. Fawcet survives the war but temporarily loses his eyesight. Finally he decides to stay home and take care of his family. But all of a sudden his eldest, now adult son, for no reason at all wants to help him find Moby Dick, ehr I mean the lost city. They leave, as heroes of all England. They meet some tribe and live with them in the rainforrest. They are carried down to a river in a scene that made no sense. They're not injured and seem fine. And later were told they dissappeared. Nobody ever took Fawcett seriously. And he died as a failure. Both as an explorer and as a husband. The EndWhy we should care about some military man and explorer, that wasted his life, looking for his white whale, who died 93 years ago, is a boring mystery. This movie is boring, pointless and a complete waste of time. You would have more fun watching paint dry. Avoid this at all cost.

orhan Akdeniz I saw it as one of your best movies. I think it's a little overrated. It's a movie over the standard, but it's not an unforgettable job. Adapted from a true story. Describes the main character's passions and how this affection affects his private life.