The lost city of Z (2016)

	Also Known As: Die versunkene Stadt Z
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: James Gray
	Actors: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Angus Macfadyen
	Country: USA
	Genre: Adventure
	Conditions of visioning: 20.03.2017, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English version
Synopsis: British explorer Percy Fawcett (Hunnam) travels through the Amazon in the early 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific British establishment who regard indigenous populations as "savages," the determined Fawcett - supported by his devoted wife Nina (Miller), son and aide de camp Henry Costin (Pattinson) returns time and again to his beloved jungle in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his mysterious disappearance in 1925.
Review: The first minutes I was happy to listn that Bolivia was mentioned by one character. And it starts then quite excitingly with the setup of the adventure into Amazona. I believe it is not a problem to make a movie or a biopic in which the hero fails. What if the hero is also boring? The events themselves are not boring, the affairs in the British Royal Geographical Society. The strange white people living in the jungle. The indigenes are treated with bare colonialist stereotypes as brutal, violent, belligerous, bad. And this last is for me a very negative point, even if it is only a very secondary point of the story. The acting of Hunnam and Pattinson are not bad for the characters they have. Unfortunately, these have no much deepness. The only interesting characters is the coward James Murray (Macfadyen) that is played a bit exaggeratedly, but fine. The scenery is beautiful, even if it is also not used much by director James Gray.
Rating: 3 /10