Why the high rating?

Rating: 2/10 (29 August 2017)

I gave this 2 stars only for the scenery. This could have been a really exciting movie if it had been written by somebody else...The story itself should have been fascinating. Unfortunately, the dialogue was stilted, the characters were not very believable, and the story jumped between years in a way that I found annoying. They should have spent more time on the actual search for the City of Z instead of showing all the history leading up to it. There was so little detail in each chapter of the story we started fast forwarding to get to the unsatisfying end...
Glad we got it for free from the library and didn't waste money going to the theater to see it! There would have been no benefit to seeing it on the big screen, it just wasn't that good...