After hearing that this movie is about Percy Fawcett, one of the real-life people who inspired the character Indiana Jones, of course I was going to see it. As you can probably guess from the title, it's about a British explorer who goes looking for a fabled lost city in the Amazon jungle. There are several expeditions that come tantalizingly close, but something always hold the expeditions back at the last reach. And of course, the entire enterprise is interrupted by World War I. Finally and inevitably, Fawcett doesn't return and that is that.
As for the movie, it's beautifully made and well acted. Perhaps the worst that I can say about it is that the continuity of events gets a little choppy, and the wardrobes and costumes department perhaps had too good of a time dressing people up. But the events span twenty years here, so of course to pack it all in the filmmakers had to jump quickly from WWI to 1924, and a little bit of over-plush wardrobe can be forgiven. Finally, the ending is tastefully handled and followed up by a few small, respectful epilog title cards. It's a good movie, call it 3 out of 4 stars. Nothing really ever knocked my socks off at any point along the way, but the overall effect is of a good tale well told.
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