Few seem to enjoy this movie.

Rating: 7/10 (5 July 2019)

The movie is about Percy Fawcett, a real life English explorer from the early 1900s. He was a man driven by ambition and had a passion for mystery and the unknown. Charlie Hunnman does the best role in his career here in my opinion, with a great potrayal of what this man could have been like.
This is not the classical adventure movie, in the themes of, for example Indiana Jones. And this is probably where some lose interest. It's slow passed and perhaps a bit boring during it's over 2h run time. Though it is a remarkable story to tell. I would not have known it, if not for this movie. Exactly how accurate this film is to reality, is hard to tell, but for me, it did let me fantasies about what it could have been like. It also tells the story of man's will to go against great hardship in the pursuit of glory and adventure and that the journey is selldome as pompous as one would like to imagine.
Also, it speeks of a time when England was this greatly sofisticated nation in the world but still knew very little and suffered tremendous ignorance.
There are also some sidenotes of how the roles of men and women in society were different, as it still is today but more ditinctivley back then. And perhaps these roles have been neccicary to be what they are, for many reasons we won't embark on now. But Fawcett's wife is portrayed as a very strong woman, as she probably was in real life, she always has to miss here husband, but still supports him. In many ways, she is as strong as him, raising the children while he is gone for many years in different periods again and again.
The movie covers a lot of time in the characters life's and does soo with many big jumps, blanks you kind of have to fill in yourself. But I personally liked that, it made the movie more emersive since I really have to imagine what is going on, on many levels, to fully understand the characters and also what a big escapade like this was like and how it was known and received at the time by the public, but mostly the characters inner life's.
Apparently Fawcett was ridiculed a lot through his career, but that never stopped him, and today, almost 100 years after his disappearence and death, we know that he was right all along.
In my opinion this movie tells a great story of a great man, also a great story of history and a great story of humanity as a whole. It was artistically and beautifully made. Though, perhaps a bit slow and boring at times.