Essentially an update of Romancing The Stone and playing like a more playful self-aware version of Jungle Cruise with tongue very firmly in cheek, The Lost City finds Sandra Bullock as a bereaved romance novelist, under pressure to deliver her next novel in a genre that she dislikes, who gets whisked away on a quest by a media mogul (Daniel Radcliffe) to find the real-life priceless artefact (The Crown Of Fire) featured in her latest novel, with her deluded cover model (Channing Tatum) and sassy agent (Da'Vine Joy Randolph) on the chase to rescue her. Bullock strides through the film with easy comedic abandon and delivers this kind of material with absolute confidence and excellent timing, Tatum completely sends up his (and models') persona to great effect, Radcliffe feels a little miscast here as the villain of the piece, but Randolph gives a strong feisty comedic performance and Brad Pitt is good fun as a zen trainer/merecenary. Tatum and Bullock make for a good pairing in this silly, lightweight but quite entertaining romp.
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