The Lost City of Z

2016

Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History

425
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 251 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 104983 105K

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Plot summary

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

Director

James Gray Photo
James Gray

Top cast

Tom Holland Photo
Tom Holland as Jack Fawcett
Charlie Hunnam Photo
Charlie Hunnam as Percy Fawcett
Robert Pattinson Photo
Robert Pattinson as Henry Costin
Harry Melling Photo
Harry Melling as William Barclay
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1.02 GB
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23.976 fps
2 hr 21 min
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1920*800
English 2.0
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6.33 GB
3840*2160
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2 hr 21 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki 6 / 10

Disjointed, episodic, also uneven and overlong, filled with peaks and valleys.

Screenplay jumps from one segment of Fawcett's life to another, without a lot of connexion.I didn't really object to this film's two and a half hours long run time, I just wish more time would have been spent in the jungles, searching for the lost city, because when they're in the jungles, the film works well, as unseen natives launch arrows at them, and their rocky trip through some rapids, and the film is well worth watching for those scenes. More of the screenstory should have dealt with this, as well as the jungle natives themselves.Instead, the first fifteen minutes are unrelated hunting stories, and it later veers off into feminist ramblings for one lengthy scene, and a completely out of place, and needless sequence on a WWI battlefield, which seems to occupy about fifteen minutes of the run time as well, and for what purpose? It seems like the filmmakers had abandoned the premise of searching for a lost city, and padded the plot out with these scenes, and as a result, the search for a lost city only makes up about 40% of the movie. There are occasional questions of whether the explorers are more savage than the natives, but even that doesn't seem to go anywhere, as the film will quickly go off into a different direction.This is (or should be, anyway) a film where its setting and location should become a character in its own right (like the jungles in Predator, or the building in Die Hard, or the hotel in The Shining) but we see so little of it that it could just simply be an overgrown section of land in Hawai'i.
Reviewed by MOscarbradley 9 / 10

An art movie more than a conventional adventure epic...and a very fine one.

Far from a conventional 'jungle adventure' James Gray's outstanding "The Lost City of Z" has more in common with the films of Werner Herzog than "The Mission". Bases on real events it's the story of explorer Percival Fawcett's search for the lost city of the title deep in the Bolivian jungle. It is a long, slow film more concerned with the psychology of its characters than their actions and it's very well played by Charlie Hunnam, (a revelation), Robert Pattinson and, in a major supporting turn, Angus MacFadyen. It's also stunningly shot by the great Darius Khondji and superbly written and directed by Gray, moving away here from the gritty confines of the American city where we usually find him. It wasn't really a commercial success but then in this day of action superheroes did anyone really think it would be. This is an art movie posing as an adventure epic and doing it very well indeed.
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