Fountain of Youth

A very enjoyable and entertaining movie. Well worth a watch 👍

Not a terrible movie but not brilliant. Not up to Guy Ritchie’s normal standard though. It’s almost as if they’d tried to make a mix of Indiana Jones and National Treasure but it doesn’t quite work. It picks up a lot in the second half IMO, the first half jumps around too much with a series of separate mini stories badly patched together. Natalie Portman’s character is annoying as hell throughout but particularly so in the first half of the movie with her INCESSANT whingeing, I don’t think it was just the script either, her delivery was particularly poor. I don’t quite get some of the scathing reviews this got on IMDB though, honestly I don’t think it was that bad and was certainly a lot better than many of the recent swathe of treasure hunter films.

I started watching Fountain of Youth immediately after binge watching 7 episodes of MobLand Season 1. This movie is timid compared to that and many other Guy Ritchie movies for that matter. For some reason I find Natalie Portman’s character annoying.

Well, it’s ok. I was expecting something fabulous like “National Treasure” with Nicholas Cage. It tries, but doesn’t succeed.

Look it’s ok, it’s a fun movie, but it feels like the spark is missing and it tries too hard to be funny.