Review of The Lost City (2022) by Gemsicle — 25 Mar 2022

When I sat there in the theater, it felt like I was watching an adolescent version of "Dora and the Lost City", but without Dora; and the "Uncharted" movie, except I was admired by the better casting choices and had a plot that was more from scratch. This movie has an interesting theme where a reclusive author, Loretta hides her ideas of a fantasy novel from society as a surprise. While promoting her new novel, she is faced with exaggeration when a lunatic kidnaps her and Loretta faces visualized aspects from her novel on an island. The contemplations this film had me wondering if an imagination of an author had a perfect scenario for Loretta to reflect vividly on characters that she created and what she would be able to do with the materiality of them.

It feels like this film wanted to have a little simultaneous competition with "Uncharted" and as I see it, the visuals here required less effort than in "Uncharted", while that movie had a plot that was more befogging and this film followed through better.