Director Guy Richie exploded on the film scene back in 1998 with frenetic "Locked, Actions and Two Smoking Barrels", "" An amazing but serious crime, which established the iconoclastic voice and inclination of the young director for revealed, male stories. Richie's films are rarely elegant, and look just polished as their budgets allow. He tends to expose protagonists, who just as soon as they shoot bong with you than going to adventure. His Sherlock Holmes was less detective as a brilliant friend with his own man-tray and membership in the combat club. In his "Uncle Man", when Napoleon Solo (Henry Caville) released him, he was drugged, he accidentally laid on the couch, careful not to ridicule his hair; He knew how he felt drugs. Even the King of Richie, Arthur (Charlie Hanam), in Ultra-bomb "King Arthur: Legend of the Mast", " It was a liner, announcing the roundtable saying, "It's a table. You sit on it."

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But when Richie was directing Disney's horrible remake of Aladdin, he proved that he could swallow all his directorial instincts and to pet the company line. "Aladdin" could have been directed by everyone, presenting his clear digital visual and flawlessly deployed tracks with the kind of road, commercial efficiency usually managed by Brett Ratner or John Levy. Richie, despite being deceived by an overhaul of smoking British blocks, was also an obedient man of the company, capable of following study notes and turning into blockbusters that can be seen in Bland-but generally.

Richie is, of course, in the last mold with a "fountain of youth", serious waste of the lost casket, presented without a hint of humor, self -awareness or irony. The "Fountain of Youth" is just as safe and predictable as movies, trying to get back - with just adapted success - an easy captain of early Spielberg. The film lacks Indiana Onesons's miracle and excitement, but not as stupid as "Da Vinci Code", and of course less inconvenient than, say, "red reporting".

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However, it is the matrix on which this film falls.

Kron Krasinski plays Luke, a charming, a thief of Yoki, who, thanks to his habits, has attracted enemies around the world. While running from one, said an enemy in the movie "Bangkok set", Luke runs after an stunningly attractive interpol policeman named Esme (Eiza Gonzalez) and they immediately form a Vallean/Hawk, only with hair more sexual tension. Like everything in this film, relationships are established through obvious parts of dialogue, not any kind of original chemistry.

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Luke then escapes to her sister Charlotte (Natalie Portman) in the middle of an untidy divorce. Charlotte, as mentioned above, uses an ordinary, exhibition dialogue to discuss her and Luke's stagnant relationship with their dead, father of wealth and as Luke is an unresponsive criminal for unresolved problems with Dad. Their backstew will be boring even if it was presented subtly and discreet, but the script (from "Zodiac" and "Script VI" The writer Jamesimes Wanderbilt) turns loudly with its brazen perspective that its clichés look more and more obvious. Charlotte is a museum curator, and Luke immediately gets on her bad side by grabbing a picture of the Wallid right in front of her. This is introducing another cliche policeman, the one played by Arian Moyd. Who, to be fair, looks blinding in the coat coat.

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Luke, Lam, also grabs Charlotte herself and leads her to join his band Mary Heiders, which includes Patrick (Laz Alonso), Deb (Carmen Eyogo) and his mysterious virtue, billionaire with Cancer (Domhel Gleeson).

Stop with me if you have heard this: there seems to be secret codes written with invisible ink at the back of Luke's images. If they are properly deciphered, they can lead to the location of the youth fountain. Like, the true natural spring that is said to give eternal life. The same thing that Gilgamesh was looking for.

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And, yes, the "Fountain of Youth" is borrowing a conspiracy from the epic of Gilgamesh, literally the oldest story known to mankind. Charlotte reluctantly agrees to join Luke's adventurous adventures to decipher his glyphs for painting. Their adventures will include raising the rubble of Lucitania (!) To get a hidden image of the ship, as well as the theft of a copy of the wicked Bible (the wrong impression in the real life that read "You will perform overlook" in the book Exodus) located at the Vienna Library.

When Dan Brown wrote "The Da Vinci Code", He covered his archaeological hui with a powerless gate of the port, pretending that the hidden Bible codes and ancient indications of painting were somehow philosophically important. Hack, even Floe TournalTaub in 2004, hunting for "national wealth" She tried to tie an element of the huge, history of American patriotism to its sequences of hats. In a gracious contrast, the "Fountain of Youth" remains joyful, its heroes too cool to be impressed by the great art they are constantly surrounding. It is a hunting of Disney fever grass, eavesdropping in everything you learned in the history of 9th grade.

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Unfortunately, as a leading man, Johnon Krasinski is just as non -essential as the film around him. He is not funny enough to be unstoppable, beloved f ***-up, and is also not sexual or sufficiently blind to be charm in the form of the Danny ocean. He, like everything else in the "fountain of youth", is effective. I dare to say, he lacks charisma to collect a movie like this. Meanwhile, Natalie Portman is trying to take her character seriously, but she has been exposed by the film's writing; Charlotte turns wildly back and forth between enjoying itself and angered for almost shot, all the contingent of the demands at the scene. She never seems to be really afraid. And if Luke is flatten and weird - which also means He is Never be afraid - there is never a sense of danger.

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The shooting of the film is tight and fast, and its visuals are widely open and easy to compression. The best can be said about the "fountain of youth" is that it is systematic coherent and easily watching. What, I understand, is poor praise. The type of visual and narrative clarity that Richie represents in the "Fountain of Youth" should be part of the birth of any great blockbuster. Too many blockbusters are blurred with muddy photography, clumsy editing and no sense of spatial continuity. That Richie was able to master those things for a "fountain of youth" only meant he climbed to the middle.

And that's where I will have to leave the "fountain of youth". It is an unequivocal adventure with world travels, gowned in your grandfather's favorite sweater. It was old before it started, familiar before we know it. You saw it before, and you'll see it again. There are "smart things" in it (Rembrandt! Classical Music! Pyramids!), But it's not actually smart or carefully, and even aware of history. It's an expensive cartoon that falls asleep. It's a definition of average.

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/Movie rating: 5 out of 10

The "Fountain of Youth" premiered at the global level of Apple TV+ on 23.05.2025.