Just perfect...

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

There are numerous issues not with the script but with the execution. Going to the source means going upstream, which they were not. And one horse appeared out of nowhere. Points are made about the englishes though, that resonates true, and the natives, that resonates true. The people seems not to care, but the history proves that people did not care much for life in these days. The englishes more than any others (except the germans).

For some reason at the moment I'm right into movies set in the jungle of exotic countries. I'm not sure the reason, perhaps I'm craving an exotic adventure for myself. Whatever it is though it's got me watching every one of them I can find. I had been meaning to get around to 'The Lost City of Z' but the runtime of two hours 20 minutes had me a little bit sceptical. The pacing of a film with that length needs to impeccable otherwise it can drag on and become a real chore. I finally got around to seeing it though and what I discovered wasn't a bad film, but it certainly wasn't as enjoyable as I'd hoped for.I'd hoped for a film much more like 'Jungle' starring Daniel Radcliffe where they enter the jungle, the action begins and then never lets up. Instead I found it a very frustrating and choppy film. Every time the action was just starting to begin they'd suddenly cut back to civilisation with them out of the jungle and the boring set up nonsense would start again. The film is undoubtedly at its strongest when it is set in the jungle.It sounds like there was a hell of a lot of adversity during the shoot. I commend the cast and crew for committing to actually film in the jungle. It sounds like it was bloody awful at times. There's some very strong dialogue throughout the movie that helps pave over a lot of the cracks. There are unquestionably better jungle set movies out there that I would recommend checking out before this one.

I was wondering when a full production on this subject matter would be done, overall pretty good watch. I think it was very very accurate to the real life story, a little bit of fantasy on the lost city would have been great, focused a little to much on the dram side of things, but that's a personal perspective.

Based on a true story: in the early 1900s, Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) is a young British artillery officer and cartographer assigned to help settle a boundary dispute/war between Bolivia and Brazil. During this trip, he discovers signs that indicate the possibility of a lost civilization. This causes a fascination that draws him to discover more about the region.The film and its main performer have a few things in common: they are both visually attractive but their respective depths are each just slightly above average. One would expect more from a film of two hours and twenty minutes. There isn't anything necessarily flawed in the film. There are just moments when one wants it to go further.The cinematography by Darius Khondji is stunning and the main draw for this film. Whether in Britain, the battlefields of World War I, or South American forests, the film was always a treat for the eyes.The ending was troublesome and confusing. Without giving anything away, the final disclaimer basically proves that the last segment of the movie was total speculation. "Lost City of Z" would have been a better film without this speculation.