Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (1 November 2017)

Other than the fine acting of Charlie Hunnam and Tom Holland, this movie was rather disappointing.
It was rather poorly-written and directed, and painfully dull to watch in parts. The historical inaccuracy was annoying. Fawcett was portrayed as a very liberal person with an agenda of proving that the natives of South America had an advanced city many centuries before European civilization. In reality, he was more of an explorer, adventurer, surveyor, soldier and mapmaker who wanted to learn more about a former agricultural culture in the Amazon basin.
The movie has it that Fawcett, after disappearing in the jungle, lived out the rest of his life after being accepted as a respected member of a cannibal tribe, but most historians agree he and his son were either killed by hostile natives or succumbed to tropical diseases.