Percy Fawcett comes across as a thinking man's Indiana Jones

Rating: 8/10 (30 July 2017)

It's really heartening to see Hollywood still making such movies... it's heartbreaking to see American audiences snubbing it even as they continue to embrace the dumb superhero films. Had David Lean made Embrace of the Serpent then perhaps it would have looked like The Lost City of Z.
Here is a film that reminded me of so many great movies. A discernible viewer would find shades of Lawrence of Arabia, Apocalypse Now, The New World, The Wages of Fear, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Charlie Hunnam plays an English explorer Percy Fawcett who comes across as a thinking man's Indiana Jones. The movie also features deeply nuanced performances from one of my modern favorites, Robert Pattinson, and the intelligently beautiful Sienna Miller.
Kudos to director James Gray for his vision and courage to realize a film like The Lost City of Z. If you love the kind of films that I have talked about in the review then certainly you cannot afford to give this film a miss.
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