Essentially a lesser National Treasure, with surprisingly subpar performances given who the director is. And I just have to point out a glaring plot oversight: [spoiler]the "protector" chick and her crew know the exact location of the fountain from the start. Yet, instead of going to the pyramid in advance to secure it, set a trap, or shut down the mechanism with her key like she ended up doing anyway, she spends the entire film chasing the protagonists as they decipher historical clues she already knows the answers to. The protagonists find the final location completely unguarded and everyone else conveniently shows up later. She was always a step ahead of them yet somehow always trailed them.[/spoiler]

This film was terrible. It's incredibly difficult to line up this much talent acting and directing and come up with an abomination of this type, but writer James Vanderbilt cleared that bar with ease. It was astonishing that this was the same man that wrote _Zodiac_, as, outside of that, his career had been filled with one massive loser after another. This movie was a blatant rip-off of at least three other films, _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade_, _National Treasure_, and _The Da Vinci Code_. Unfortunately, it didn't come close to being as entertaining as any of those. However, _Fountain of Youth_ did deserve to be sued by the creators of all three of those films for IP infringement. Watching this, it was clear that Apple had backed up a Brinks truck in order to obtain Natalie Portman, John Krasinski, and Domhnall Gleeson, because there was no way that any of those three talents read this script, and said, 'This is fantastic! I must be in this film!' The story literally made no sense, as it contradicted itself from scene-to-scene, especially the ending. The feel of the movie gave an indication that it was a family film, but the dialogue, as awful as it was, was clearly made for adults. It was so haphazard that it made it seem as if it wasn't made for any demographic in particular. There were also numerous, glaring continuity errors that no one bothered to fix. Worst of all, the last two minutes of this movie were very clearly designed to set up a series of films. Let's hope that this goes down in flames so hard, we never have to hear about it ever again.

Not a terrible movie but not brilliant. Not up to Guy Ritchie’s normal standard though. It’s almost as if they’d tried to make a mix of Indiana Jones and National Treasure but it doesn’t quite work. It picks up a lot in the second half IMO, the first half jumps around too much with a series of separate mini stories badly patched together. Natalie Portman’s character is annoying as hell throughout but particularly so in the first half of the movie with her INCESSANT whingeing, I don’t think it was just the script either, her delivery was particularly poor. I don’t quite get some of the scathing reviews this got on IMDB though, honestly I don’t think it was that bad and was certainly a lot better than many of the recent swathe of treasure hunter films.

A very enjoyable and entertaining movie. Well worth a watch 👍

Nothing special, but entertaining enough. Interpol going guns blazing on the pyramids doesn’t make any sense though. They should have let the protectors going in and eliminate the bad guys stealth, then team up with interpol to go in. But hey, I am not a writer..