The Lost City of Z (2016)

THE LOST CITY OF Z  (2016)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: James Gray
    Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller,
    Tom Holland, Angus Macfadyen, Ian McDiarmid
A few years after the turn of the 20th century, a British army officer with a background in mapmaking heads up into the Amazon to explore an uncharted river. There he finds danger, disease, bad weather, restless natives and what appear to be clues to a lost civilization. Despite a wife and family back home and the untimely outbreak of World War One, he keeps going back. A long, deliberately paced, stiff-upper-lip adventure, apparently based on a true story from the golden age of exploration. It's never quite as engaging as you'd like it to be, and the cinematography gets a little murky sometimes, but the jungle stuff is suspenseful and the final image is haunting.