UncleLobster

The film should've started with Natalie Portman's character giving a lecture on the fountain of youth, so that the audience is in the know with what they're doing, not left in the dark for 24 minutes.

But it's so clear that they tried to copy National Tresure but did a really poor job. The script is so horrendous and makes no sense.

I love that all the main character's are white and they've just got background black guy not saying a word and with no backstory.

They needed to setup the bad guy in the first 10 minutes. How do you have a whole action hook but not setup the bad guy in it.

The big question of the film should be is the fountain of youth real as they're introducing it, but the main characters just seem to take it as a given that it's real with no doubt, except for a quick handwave. She should be debating if it exists, not just that she can't be bothered finding THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.

The color grading does seem a bit lazy, a random interoir cafe scene are tresure-hunter-yellow.

I'm mostly annoyed that they had the budget for a tresure hunter type film with a really good cast but couldn't spend the time to make a good script.

It has the same lengthy monologuing as Scorseses' Casino (1995), which seemed a bit out of place, and lazy.

Robert Pattinson sounded like he was doing an impression of Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once, same type of voice and character.

Mark Ruffalo's trumpian-esq impression was actually quite entertaining, but borderlines on taking you out of the film.

All these heavy-handed references just make the otherwise very interesting film feel a little stale, and not as uniquely fresh as Bong Joon Ho's last film, Parasite.

The middle of the film's plot drags, as it retells parts of the story, instead of using that time to explore the concept's potential a little more.

It's a decent film, just not overly groundbreaking.

Doesn't build upon any of the characters, we don't learn any of their stories.

The cliffhangers are starting to feel very amateurish and cringy, like they don't think the audience will be interested enough to watch the next episode on their own accord.

It doesn't feel bigger or grander than a regular MrBeast Video, if anything, less so.

The ad reads in the middle of the episodes feels insane considering the budge of the show, it just take you out entirely.

The whole season so far has mostly been people nominating people to leave, like if the elimination part of the show 'Surviver' was the whole show. If I told someone "what if Survive had 1000 contestants and it was just the elimination part", it'd be a hard sell. I don't think I could convince anyone to watch that show.

I get the impresson that MrBeast doesn't understand what makes an engaging show, just what engages the youtube algorithm, and he's find out very quickly, good story telling is very diffierent to gimmicky algorithm content.