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The best secrets are the hardest to find. John Krasinski, Natalie Portman, Eiza González and Domhnall Gleeson star in Fountain of Youth – Premiering May 23 on Apple TV+

Fountain of Youth follows two estranged siblings (John Krasinski and Academy Award winner Natalie Portman) who partner on a global heist to find the mythological Fountain of Youth. They must use their knowledge of history to follow clues on an epic adventure that will change their lives … and possibly lead to immortality.
 
Off to see this tonight with the Barclays Blue rewards/Apple TV+ free offer at a local Everyman cinema, with pizza, cocktails and popcorn all thrown in for free too
 
Watched last night. Good cast couldn't save it. Too many one liners and bad hunour. John K and Natalie P seemed mismatched as siblings. Story was weak generic and predictable.

It was like a worse version of , The Mummy, Indiana Jones, National Treasure and that Matthew Mcconahay similar knock off film.

3/10. I normally would have turned off but stayed for Jim Halpert

Streaming money and greed is ruining these actors and directors' careers.


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Watching this at the moment and am 35mins in….Christ this is absolutely a train wreck.

The film starts with all the tropes, high speed action chase followed by the film switching to….London (gotta show some landmarks!) and hey let’s do a high speed car chase through London and feature some busses!

No chemistry between any of the characters, Eliza’s mouth movements look as robotic as Billie Piper when she had that lip job ages ago.

Oh god, the scene has shifted to them raising a shipwreck wreck from the bottom of the sea without any planning or logistics.

Yep I’m out. Gonna rewatch Supernatural instead.

2/10
 
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Yeah chemistry really didn't work, I got about 20 minutes in or so wouldn't say it was terrible but I felt like I was watching it for the sake of it and did something else instead, might go back watch some more if I'm bored but certainly didn't grab me.
 
I've always had a soft spot for this kind of film, Mummy is one of my favourites. I don't think this was great by any means but I enjoyed it. Would have been better with more Tucci though! It was definitely better than Jungle Cruise but it was a bit too long and got a bit CGI heavy at the end. I thought the cast was pretty good but I agree it lacked a little chemistry, Krasinski got a few chuckles though and it had a couple of solid action scenes. It's definitely trope-y though. Hell, Esme was basically a female Ardeth Bay! I'd give it a 6/6.5 if you really like this type of film.
 
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Have Apple ever released a single decent feature length movie? Me thinks not.
 
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Scam said:
Have Apple ever released a single decent feature length movie? Me thinks not.
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CODA is the one that won an oscar a few years back. Not seen it myself. Probably went to their head a bit, as nothing else since has won anything big.

They should just release them to streaming direct rather than doing cinema releases in some countries. Waste of money and only done for the tiny chance of an awards nomination.

Netflix and Apple are probably tied on how much money they'll throw at actors and directors to make B grade movies for their platforms. At this point they're just the straight-to-DVD films of yesteryear.


rp2000
 
Watched it last night and made it to the end just to see how bad it was/could get. Answer was very.

Feels like someone high up at Apple loved Dr Jones and thought a crappy story but tossing big names at it and doing CGI traps would make a satisfying movie.

It’s just bad.
 
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Streaming money and greed is ruining these actors and directors' careers.
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most of them only have a career to make money, I bet few of them actually enjoy the craft these days.


green screens and computers probably made it a really dull and boring job.

probably doesnt help that nearly every script is generic garbage either, seemingly wrote by people with 0 life experience outside of what they have saw on a screen.
they don't know how to write dialogue between characters because they are social leppers
 
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It was 'OK'..

Someone mentioned CODA, that was a passable film, hardly old school oscar worthy, but a good story none the less with a very well chosen cast and at least it could modestly pull you in to the scene in a natural way.. the stark contrast of that and the Fountain of Youth in terms of believable characters is just laughable..

I watched the DaVinci code last weekend, so whilst not quite the same genre, it's close enough for a comparison.. and what a stark contrast that highlights how modern DEI box ticking leaps out as completely swamping and overtaking the actual ability to tell a story to a degree it can turn what might have been a genuinely reasonable bit of entertainment into pure slop..
 
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