{"id":612,"date":"2025-05-31T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itc-ns.nl\/?p=612"},"modified":"2025-06-03T11:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:41:34","slug":"movies-the-fountain-of-youth-review-tired-and-washed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itc-ns.nl\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/movies-the-fountain-of-youth-review-tired-and-washed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIES: The Fountain of Youth – Review: Tired and Washed Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Fountain of Youth<\/i> is Guy Ritchie\u2019s latest global treasure hunt movie that\u2019s one part Uncharted<\/i>, one part National Treasure and all parts bad. Centred around a brother\/sister pairing; washed up treasure hunter John Krasinski is forced to work together with museum sellout Natalie Portman to protect their father\u2019s legacy by finding the mythical fountain of youth. It\u2019s Ritchie in autopilot; lacking the flair of his 90s British gangster films or even the recent blockbuster work like The Man from UNCLE<\/i> and The Gentlemen<\/i>. It just feels dull \u2013 from the start; and that\u2019s largely due to the casting \u2013 Krasinski has negative chemistry with anyone that he’s involved with and him and Portman don\u2019t feel believable as brother\/sister. <\/p>\n

The plot twists are too predictable and you know what\u2019s coming a mile off; the location scavenger hunts are dull and a way for Ritchie to throw Apple\u2019s millions up the wall \u2013 this is Apple showing how much money they have again by getting an Oasis needle drop and using it in the most eye-rollingly way possible at the end credits. It\u2019s dull. It\u2019s flat. It\u2019s clich\u00e9 \u2013 every part of this is stolen from better movies and better video games; there are set-pieces straight from Uncharted. The characters have the most threadbare characterisation \u2013 there\u2019s a gifted kid musical prodigy \u2013 why is he there, really? Nobody knows \u2013 and no real character arc is done with him \u2013 Portman is reduced to telling Krasinski that he\u2019s wrong the whole time and Krasinski then finally admits that he\u2019s wrong. The movie attempts to force a enemies-to-lovers romance between Krasinski and Eiza Gonzalez; who plays a character intent on stopping Krasinski from finding the fountain of youth \u2013 but Krasinski comes off as creepy more than charming in their initial encounter and for some reason, Stanley Tucci is there for five seconds? The plot feels like a torture to get through. It begs the question \u2013 why was Krasinski ever allowed to escape beyond The Office and turn into a movie star in the first place?<\/p>\n

At best; he\u2019s miscast here. A rugged glory hunter \u2013 Luke Purdue is no Indiana Jones \u2013 not convincing when he\u2019s the assshole and not charming enough to look enthusiastic when coming face to face with the mythical fountain of youth about it being; the mythical fountain of youth. The dynamic between Krasinski and Portman is threadbare at best \u2013 Domhnall Gleeson barely registers as a dying billionaire looking for the Fountain; and the film just becomes dull \u2013 there\u2019s no sense of adventure; no sense of gravitas \u2013 no real risk or daring that the Indiana Jones movies had \u2013 Ritchie\u2019s camerawork is safe, formulaic and predictable. Everything looks old and tired before it even arrives on screen – and it\u2019s arguably; the weakest Ritchie movie to date. Which \u2013 after Aladdin<\/i>, is saying something. With dozens of tv shows in the works \u2013 maybe he\u2019s stretched too thin?<\/p>\n

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