Fountain of Youth
Published May 25, 2025
Film info
- Title Fountain of Youth
- Director Guy Ritchie
- Year 2025
- Run time 2hrs 5m
- Genres Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
- Tagline The best secrets are the hardest to find
A treasure-hunting mastermind assembles a team for a life-changing adventure. But to outwit and outrun threats at every turn, he’ll need someone even smarter than he is: his estranged sister.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 3:41 | You can’t win a car chase on a little moped, surely. |
| 11:21 | How desperate you have to be to jump off a moving train. |
| 17:03 | The velvet suit is not great. |
| 23:02 | Better when the group is together bickering, as always. |
| 31:02 | This is feeling very Da Vinci Code. |
| 34:46 | You can’t go messing with shipwrecks like this, can you? |
| 40:53 | Ew, alcohol from a shipwreck from 100 years ago. |
| 50:35 | In this case, the detective’s sarcasm is truly warranted. |
| 55:08 | Love the warehouse canal side location. |
| 1:03:51 | The costume design in this is awful. |
| 1:17:20 | Pyramids! |
| 1:19:58 | Stanley Tucci rocks up after 80 minutes. |
| 1:29:45 | “Let’s just move it,” he says, as if he’s never played Tomb Raider before. |
| 1:45:26 | So tense. |
| 1:55:18 | I called Praeger dying the minute he joined them, but he soooo almost made it! |
Thoughts
I so wanted this to be a good film. It feels like ages since we had a good globe-trotting, tomb-raiding, mystery-solving adventure, but this was not it. The start was a bit slow, but once the group got together and started ‘planning the heist’, it was okay. We blew past the twenty minute rule, so there must have been something in it to start with. But it went downhill pretty quickly.
There wasn’t a huge amount of chemistry between the leads, despite their best efforts. The clothing was awful. There were a lot of different people running around with guns and it was never quite clear the motivations of any of them at any one time. It was derivative of all the other adventure movies (this Guardian review sums it up: “this hodgepodge of plundered elements adds up to nothing more than Indiana Bourne and the Thomas Crown Da Vinci Code.”) and by the end, it was hugely repetitive.
Stanley Tucci was barely in it, appeared twice, and one of those was a repeat of the previous scene. We watched Krasinski’s character get lifted by the fountain, and then we had to watch the exact same thing again when Domhnall gave it a go. Yawn.
Rating: 2 / 5