Great Adaptation from Bestseller to Big Screen

Rating: 10/10 (29 April 2017)

It has been a while since I read a book, then followed it up watching the movie on the big screen. I loved the book and enjoyed the true life story of Colonel Percy Fawcett. What these explorers experienced in the perils of mapping the Amazon were horrific. The book was very graphic with the true life descriptions of their encounters especially in the insect form. The movie as with most going to the big screen from book can't and wasn't able to capture all the details in the book. Still I found the adaptation to the big screen very enjoyable and heard people talking as they exited the movie wondering as to why this movie wasn't getting more press! I couldn't agree more as I found the movie captivating and was entranced the whole way through, not only because I read the book, but the actors and the true story was engaging (I would also recommend that you seek out the bestselling book). The movie covered more than I imagined it would on how Percy's family and wife were tormented with his long departures into the Amazon and the years that they spent without him being home. So glad I finally got to see the movie, as I was highly agitated that it took so long to get to a local screen-for the last two weeks it was over 100 miles away in a theater. This movie is worth seeing and I recommend that you seek it out, shame on all the theaters for not showing a movie of this high quality-very Oscar worthy! My only negative was that I wish they would have spent more time shooting the movie in the jungle versus the time he spent at home and on the battlefield in WW1. Also they could have done this movie similar to "Titanic" as the author of the book re-traced Colonel Percy Fawcett's last trip in the Amazon and also got information from the British Geographic Society in the form of documents and journals.