The Lost City (2022)

Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum make a likeable, if slightly indistinctly characterised, leading pair (is he a dopey muscle-bound try-hard, sage truth-bomber, or simply gaga in love?) in this romantic action comedy that is most fun in its first twenty minutes before the action shifts to a "forgotten island" (which turns out to have an airport, a village, and a volcano that features in the tv news) where Daniel Radcliffe's villain, dressed as Colonel Sanders, seeks a treasure and the movie's initially sharp wit quickly descends into juvenile things like bum leeches and dick carry-on.

★★☆☆☆

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Fool's Gold (2008)

This much-maligned sun-drenched adventure from Warner Bros. has goofball divorcees, played by bronzed beach babes Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey, reuniting in a race to claim a sunken treasure in the Caribbean, and it is so harmless a romantic romp, like an especially cartoony Romancing the Stone, it is hard to see why so many people regard it with such disdain, even if Donald Sutherland's appearance as a rich yacht owner feels unnecessary and his character's relationship with his daughter is irritating, even if McConaughey and Hudson are not the most likeable leads, and even if you are never going to want to watch it again, ever.

★★★☆☆

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