Fascinating journey of an explorer but kind of depressing

Rating: 6/10 (17 May 2017)

The story of an early 20th Century British explorer in the Amazon with 8 lives - not 9 as we will find out.
The cast is good Sienna Miller as a supportive wife and dumb mother, Robert Pattinson uglied up in a supporting role - quite convincing, and Charlie Hunnam as the explorer who can't seem to survive without danger. His journeys are quite scary but what did he really achieve? Then fighting in WW1 trenches after that is just too much.
OMG the ending is so depressing. Father and son dumb and dumber. Both of them being cannibalized or worse? With the advent of airplanes they didn't need to go by land. What's wrong with the 2 of them? And to go alone at the end? It's good they had an unhappy ending because it's realistic but be warned it's kind of depressing.
Don't know if it was the cinema where I saw this but the cinematography seemed a bit dark.