Not so much of an adventure

Rating: 4/10 (8 October 2017)

I read this book and I thought that the trailer was pleasantly surprising. The movie does not have the hook that the book did. Like many other reviews stated, the screenplay is seriously lacking. Instead of doing creative storytelling, the movie does a very linear story and tries to cover as much of Percy's life as possible rather than focusing on his goal of finding the lost city.
I was surprised how little we were actually in the jungle, as the story chose to focus on Percy's home life and the Great War, as well as his dealings with the Royal Geographic Society. What I did not feel as a viewer was that I was in the Amazon Rainforest. The film made it seemingly easy to communicate with local tribes to get information and like they would definitely find something if they kept looking. The movie does a terrible job at revealing the vastness of the jungle. I visited the Amazon on a trip to Ecuador and hiking through it and looking around, it is so possible that there is a lost city there because there is SO MUCH to explore. But the movie almost made it too believable.
I would love to see a remake of this in 20 years with more creativity and cinematic power instead of, essentially, a biopic.