Rather boring for something that should be the opposite.

Rating: 2/10 (4 November 2017)

For a film that deals with the matters of exploration throughout South American rain forest and jungles in the early 20th century, this film was exceedingly boring and unevenly paced, causing me to pause it numerous times and finish it the next day, today from my initial start last night. The story focuses on real life British explorer Percy Fawcett as he attempts to discover a lost city of immense wealth and power, filled to the brim with native South Americans that would prove to the ho-hum people of "civilized" society that not only does civilization as a concept not belong only to "white men" but it was derived far earlier by those considered to be savages.
With that premise, you would think the film would be exciting with many perilous scenes, yet throughout the run time I was left wanting, wanting a better script, better score, better characters, and a better premise to be honest. The run time is well over 2 hours and does not justify it. Each scene barely transfers into the next one, instead leaving the audience with a hobbled mess of mismatched scenes that are barely relevant to each other. For instance, the scenes in the Trenches during WWI had no bearing upon the rest of the film other than to show the audience why Major Fawcett was given the rank of Lt. Colonel. It had no relevance whatsoever on the plot other than that tidbit which should not have mattered, and the ten or so minutes it focused on this major part of World History, merely seemed to provide us with a very cheery portrayal instead of the grim and downright ugly truth. Instead, we are treated to a "psychic" that tells Fawcett his destiny is to find this lost city, then a boring and melodramatic speech about fighting for each other which I have seen done better in other films, before a quick and dramatized rendition of Fawcett's unit storming Germans and their artillery post, before stopping due to a slo-mo shot of Fawcett succumbing to gas after he just told one of his comrades about it. Just plain stupid.
The acting was well done and Charlie Hunnam as well as Robert Pattinson should be congratulated at the very least for not turning in their performances as they could have but giving a little more effort than others around them.
The score as mentioned previously was practically nonexistent and certainly not memorable and even as I type this, I am having a hard time remembering if there even was one, which really is rather poor on the music department and the director and producers for their lackluster effort.
My main complain other than this film being boring is the lack of any progress. I read a bit on the real Percy Fawcett and shrugged my shoulders, as reading what I did and watching the film made it seem to me that this was not material worthy of going on film as nothing of substance was ever accomplished due to these explorations others than a few jottings on pieces of paper. I would much rather have walked around in the local park near me for two hours with a journal than to ever see this film again.
A lackluster effort but what else can be expected from Amazon Studios. Better luck next time I'm afraid.