Sad. Terribly sad.

Rating: 5/10 (30 April 2017)

The title almost says it all. It is really The Lost City of ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZs, as in total snooooooooooze fest. Actually, it's a British affair, so it's The Lost City of Zed. But then it's not very funny to say it's really the Lost City of Zedddddddddddddddds. Or is it?
Charlie Hunnam, he is not a good enough actor to pull this off. My brain, it is not capable of handling 141 minutes of a movie like this. At one point, I thought I had been trapped in an episode of The Twilight Zone, watching Percy Fawcett going to and leaving from the Amazon River, over and over again, in a never-ending loop. Or was that actually an episode of Black Mirror?
It's an action-adventure-biography, according to some movie sites. There's not much action, and the adventure of getting lost in a jungle and not finding what you're after is, well, not much of an adventure. We've seen better river dangers in Apocalypse Now and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
It is, however, squarely a biographical film. It was nice to see an imaginary end for Percy and his son, Jack, played swellly by the new Spiderman guy. You see, the Fawcetts probably drank some ayahuasca with some natives and then got carried away into a bunch of candles. Oops. Spoiler alert!
In all actuality, they probably got swallowed up by a big, black snake. Sad. Terribly sad.
Side note: it's nice to see Emperor Palpatine working again, especially because I reckoned he had left this mortal plane.