Nancy Benedict

I was initially pulled into this movie with its interesting titled poster “The Lost City” with Channing Tatum & Sandra Bullock. When I sat down I was greatly disappointed that the title is the main characters “best selling” novel. Which isn’t anything interesting. They dedicated about one sentence to explain the backstory about what the book. And the Main character “the writer” didn’t get much of a backstory either. They focused more on the jokes, references, cast and location rather than the plot itself. Which personally I’d rather have an interesting plot than a glittery cast and backdrop. Left theater very disappointed.

This movie missed it’s mark. I have never followed princess Diana’s life story but I figured I’d watch this movie to learn more about her life. However, after watching this all I have gathered is that this movie portrayed her to be a erratic unstable women with a bulimia disorder. To me that does not at all feel right. She seemed to be an amazing and kind person in real life from what I have heard, but those qualities of hers where completely washed away by the overpowering depth this movie compiles into. There was so much lead up to no climax and when the movie was over I found myself thinking “that’s it?”. An important thing to mention is the trailer teased about a possible explanation to the conspiracy theories behind her death, that explanation was no where to be seen. On top of that I find it very interesting that this movie has one of the most amazing and talented actress, Kristen Stewart and although her interpretation of Princess Diana was amazing, I felt she was not given the right opportunity to live up to her true potential in this role. Overall very disappointing. Felt more like a bad horror movie than a tribute to a magnificent icon.