THE LOST CITY
[FILM]
Come on, who doesn’t wear a sequinned jumpsuit in the jungle?
★★★
OUT NOW CERT TBC / 112 MINS
DIRECTORS Adam Nee, Aaron Nee
CAST Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Brad Pitt
PLOT When grieving romance novelist Loretta (Bullock) is kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire (Radcliffe), her cover model Alan (Tatum) takes off after her in an attempt to prove that he’s more than just a pretty face. Unfortunately for their chances of survival, that face might really be all they have.
DEATH CANNOT STOP true love; it can only delay it for a while. Or so The Princess Bride taught us. Sure enough, the much bally-hooed death of the big-screen romcom is beginning to look more like a hiatus, because here we are in 2022 with a crowd-pleasing, star-led romance in an exotic location. If much of directors Adam and Aaron Nee’s plot feels like a throwback to an earlier era, and in particular to Romancing The Stone, the humour here is entirely up-to-date and immensely fun.