The Lost City (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 72 Fresh: 18 Rotten:54 Average Rating: 4.8/10
Consensus:
Its heart is in the right place, but what starts as a promising exercise devolves into an overlong, unevenly directed disappointment.
Runtime: 2 hrs 23 mins
Theatrical Release: 2006
Box Office: $2,434,066
Synopsis: The Lost City is actor/director Andy Garcia’s bittersweet lyric celebration of Cuban culture that took him 16 years to make. Using music, literature and dance, City captures Havana in full tropical bloom during the late 1950s. Where Buena Vista Social Club commemorated an era of Cuban... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Inés Sastre, Jsu Garcia
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Garcia is just too earnest to make his dream project anything but deadly dull.
03/01/07
It's by no means a flawless film, but it's a meaty one, and if you're a big fan of Andy Garcia, I'd definitely recommend it. (Plus, Bill Murray's in there.)
08/30/06
When it succeeds, the film conveys a bittersweet longing for a lost moment and the unfulfilled promise of a democratic Cuba.
08/01/06
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...plays like a confusing and inferior Caribbean analog to The Godfather, without anything like the narrative drive of Coppola's film.
07/22/06
While the soundtrack of Cuban dance music is superb, this historical drama is leaden and simply too long-winded for its own good.
07/14/06
Shapeless stories that drift away from the revolution, puffed up by a biased take on 1959 Cuba with the hot air of romance.
07/01/06
Garcia's storytelling lacks highs and lows and has far too much going on. And on.
07/01/06
Book-ended by fine songs; in between, Garcia offers more than two hours of clumsy Coppola/Scorsese karaoke...
06/26/06
Even though the movie is made with an abundance of heart, it's sad to report that the final result has only a weak pulse.
06/24/06
It's handsome and heartfelt but mired in murky politics, plot inertia, musical montages and painfully pointed symbolism.
06/23/06
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Garcia needed better guiding hands and eyes in the editing room to jettison the many parts that bog down the story.
06/23/06
... when it finds its footing, it becomes the movie it longs to be. And that happens often enough to make it worth finding, even when it seems as lost as the city it loves.
06/23/06
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Somehow simultaneously too much and not enough. At 143 minutes, it well overstays its welcome as a movie, but with a little more fleshing out it might have worked as a miniseries.
06/22/06
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It's a potent work, enlivened by fabulous Cuban music and Garcia's obvious love for his land and his culture.
06/16/06
Unfortunately, Garcia is inept as a director. His scenes are shapeless and bloated with self-important speeches.
06/16/06
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