This Wednesday, April 20, Paramount presents The Secret of the Lost City with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum. A nice and relatively effective entertainment, directed by the duo Aaron and Adam Nee who signs here his first feature film. Criticism:
The Secret of the Lost City: Back to basics
After the recent Jungle Cruise at Disney and Uncharted at Sony, it is the turn of Paramount to produce old-fashioned adventure entertainment with The Secret of the Lost City. Directed by Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, the film tells the story of novelist Loretta Sage, who writes erotic adventure novels who finds herself plunged into the equatorial jungle in spite of herself, in search of the lost city of G-d, at the center of her series of novels. She is then rescued by the model Alan, who is the muse of the covers of her books. 
With The Secret of the Lost City, Aaron and Adam Nee return to a form of fundamentals. They offer an old-school adventure story, with its share of investigations, exotic landscapes, abandoned monuments, and unwelcoming jungle. A way for the studio to pay tribute to the great classics of the genre from Indiana Jones, to The Man from Rio and In Pursuit of the Green Diamond. An endearing love story, a rich promoter eager to recover the treasure (here played by Daniel Radcliffe) and an adventure in the depths of the equatorial jungle. The recipe is complete.
A duo that works particularly well
Even if The Secret of the Lost City remains extremely classic, and does not come out of the usual shackles of the genre, it is the duo Bullock/Tatum that gives all its flavor to the film. Indeed, the plot stitched with white thread, and the lack of heroic breath quickly make the feature film fall on the side of comedy. It must be said that Channing Tatum is to die of laughter in The Secret of the Lost City. The actor is in a tailor-made role, which exploits both his potential as a heroic tombeur as in White House Down and his aspect of eternal teenager seductive and a little stupid as in 21 Jump Street. Alan's character is exactly in the middle of the actor's two major iterations. Channing Tatum then has a great time, and seems to have fun like crazy in this endearing and often very funny role. 
The chemistry between the two actors works perfectly and is the primary interest of the feature film. The romance is rather well treated and avoids the usual dripping pathos of the genre. For example, it is more touching and more offbeat than that of Jungle Cruise. Finally, the film can count on two significant secondary roles. First that of Daniel Radcliffe, rather funny in the skin of a villain who plays with the usual clichés of the genre. A rich gentleman playboy who quickly turns out to be a capricious kid looking for glory. And especially Brad Pitt, totally hilarious as a spiritual sports coach to die of laughter, who makes a short and remarkable performance. Here again, the character plays with the clichés that stick to the skin of the actor by offering a parody of his immortal and handsome action man representation. To conclude, The Secret of the Lost City is a pleasant but calibrated entertainment. Nothing new under the canopy: warmed jokes, hackneyed adventure springs. Nevertheless, the duo Sandra Bullock / Channing Tatum works perfectly. And Channing Tatum's semi-counter-employment is very funny! https://youtu.be/UxTDeCs0wyQ
