The Lost City is a 2022 American action-adventure romantic comedy film directed by Aaron and Adam Nee, who co-wrote the screenplay with Oren Uziel and Dana Fox, from a story by Seth Gordon. It stars Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in the lead roles, with Daniel Radcliffe, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Brad Pitt in supporting roles. The film received positive reviews. It grossed $30.5 million in its opening weekend, $105.3 million in the U.S. and Canada, and $85.5 million in International, for the worldwide total of $190.8 million against its $68 million budget, making it a box office success.
Plot[]
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Dr. Loretta Sage writes romance-adventure novels centered around a fictional heroine, Dr. Angela Lovemore, and her romantic interest, Dash McMahon. To promote the latest book on Lovemore, her publisher, Beth Hatten, insists that Loretta embark on a book tour with Alan Caprison, the book's cover model for Dash, despite her reclusiveness since the death of her husband.
After a disastrous start, mostly due to the popularity of Alan's Dash persona, Loretta is taken by Abigail Fairfax, a billionaire who realizes that Loretta based her books on actual historic research she did with her late archaeologist husband. He discovered a lost city on a remote Atlantic island and is convinced the Crown of Fire, a priceless treasure, is located there. When she declines to help decipher an ancient map to the treasure, Fairfax, fearing an active volcano will destroy the site, chloroforms and takes Loretta to the island.
Alan, who is secretly enamored with Loretta, witnesses her kidnapping. He recruits Jack Trainer, a former Navy SEAL turned CIA operative, to meet him on the island and coordinate a rescue. Jack, with no assistance from Alan, breaches Fairfax's compound and frees Loretta, but is shot in the head before they can make it to the airport, forcing Loretta and Alan to escape into the jungle.
Loretta and Alan spend a day fighting off Fairfax's men before reaching a nearby village, where upon hearing a folk song from a local, Loretta deduces that the crown is hidden in a cenote in the jungle. Before they can leave however, Fairfax captures her again, so a chase by Alan to save Loretta ensues. The two are then forced to share the treasure's location with Fairfax.
Upon reaching the location, they discover the tomb is not a monument to Taha and Calaman's power, but a hiding place for the queen to grieve for her husband. Her Crown of Fire was made of red seashells gathered by him as a sign of his love for her. The actual treasure of the legend was not a priceless jewel but the inseparable love between the king and queen.
Infuriated, Fairfax forces Loretta and Alan into the tomb as the volcano erupts, but Rafi, one of the men, has a change of heart and leaves a crowbar to help them escape before abandoning Fairfax on the island. Beth arrives with the local coast guard and Fairfax is arrested. Loretta's next book, based on her adventure with Alan, is a hit, and they share a kiss at the end of their next book tour.
In a mid-credits scene, Jack, having survived the bullet in his head, attends a yoga class alongside Loretta and Alan, surprising them.
Cast[]
- Sandra Bullock as Loretta Sage
- Channing Tatum as Alan Caprison
- Daniel Radcliffe as Abigail Fairfax
- Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Beth
- Patti Harrison as Oscar
- Oscar Nuñez as Allison
- Brad Pitt as Jack Trainer
- Bowen Yang as Ray
- Joan Pringle as Nana
- Hector Anibal as Rafi
- Thomas Forbes-Johnson as Julian
- Raymond Lee as Officer Gomez
- Adam Nee as Officer Sawyer
- Slang as Fantasy Villain