That was an excellent one.

How sad is this?

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

As a Cuban American who came over as a child with his parents in the mid 60's I heard all too often the stories of loss, pain, and the horrors witnessed and experienced by my family under the ruthless Castro regime. We lost the future my parents had worked so hard to setup for us. My parents had to leave everything behind, their business, their careers, their family and friends, to start a new from the bottom all while in their 50's. They arrived in a Country they had always loved from afar with high hopes, abandoning all they new to flee political persecution. They came with open hearts to build a new path, focused on insuring success for us their children. The Lost City captures the plight of Cubans from that era so accurately that it felt if it were telling my story. Andy Garcia does an amazing job conveying the loss so many experienced to then be welcomed to our new home, a place were we were given a new opportunity, not handed easy street, but given an honest chance to work hard and to become part of this great United States. Garcia a Cuban immigrant himself knows the pain, the loss, and is able to transfer that to film and to the viewer in a very effective way. My parents taught us to expect nothing but work hard to be worthy of this wonderful gift America had offered to us. They taught us to be respectful, and be worthy of America. This is the greatest nation on Earth and the Lost City reminds me and should all that that which we love, our home, our country, can be lost if we are not careful.

The Lost City looked like it would be a decent movie however I found to be overlong, boring, and worthy of putting you to sleep.Andy Garcia is a likable actor, however he alone can not even redeem this movie. Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray and Steven Bauer are not much help either.I can't even describe the story either, I just found myself at a loss for words at what the movie is about. Upon reading the synopsis I found myself saying, "Oh, so that's what it's all about".Sorry, but I just could not find this movie to be engaging at all. I found myself lost in this boring drama.A total waste of time and effort.1/10.

It's 1958 Havana, Cuba. Fico Fellove (Andy Garcia) is a prominent nightclub owner. His father is a respected university professor. The successful Fellove family struggles to agree on the political change blowing in the winds. His revolutionary brother Ricardo gets arrested and he gets an old friend Captain Castel to help. Ricardo is released and runs off with Che Guevara. Meyer Lansky (Dustin Hoffman) comes to him to turn his establishment into a casino. When he turns Lansky down, a bomb explodes killing his girlfriend. His other brother Luis gets in a plot to overthrow Batista and restore democracy. Luis is killed and he falls for Luis' widow Aurora. Bill Murray plays his constant writer friend.The filming locations in Santo Domingo are beautiful. The story is a vast family drama which Andy Garcia wants to be more like Godfather. However it never gets beyond the early promise. Garcia is mostly doing a solo gig and he's not putting enough energy into it. I don't get the Bill Murray character. The sunny Caribbean feel of the movie takes away the inherit gritty dirty feel of the story. It's too long with too much side trips. Andy Garcia's directions lack the urgency. He needs help to bring intensity into the film.

I'm a huge Andy Garcia fan, and a big fan of Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray too (they must've owed him money or something to have consented to grace this disaster with their presence), but clearly Garcia can neither write nor direct. I've been studying pre-revolution Cuba for months now and I keep coming back to try to watch this movie - visually it's a gorgeous depiction of the place and time. But I can only get through about twenty minutes of cringing through the horrible script before I have to turn it of. It's as if Garcia made a list of every cliché he could think of, and then had beautiful, talented actors deliver them in no particular order and with no particular depth of feeling. I'm afraid from now on whenever I see Garcia in any of my favorite movies he's done, part of my mind will be wondering what the hell he was thinking when he decided to shoot this script instead of hiring a real writer; I don't think even in Hollywood he could've found a screenwriter who couldn't have done much better.