If only this had been the true story

Rating: 3/10 (17 December 2017)

This movie is long and tedious, unnecessarily dark (as in unlit, not as in foreboding), and nearly completely devoid of compelling motive. As you watch it, you get the sense that the writers have decided to dramatize much of the actual story and that there are really, really important things missing. I read the Wikipedia entry for Percy Fawcett and, it turns out that they've taken what should have been an exceedingly interesting story and ruined it because they didn't understand what they were working with. What was Fawcett's underlying drive in life? How is it that a man can be motivated to attempt such an arduous and probably fatal task not once, but four times? There's an answer and it is given in one three-second throw away portion early in the film, then ultimately ignored. The real Percy Fawcett was a much more interesting and involved story than what is portrayed in this film. What a sad waste.