I wasn't sure if I should do this as one entry or two. The DVD set has it as two films, part 1 and part 2. I am not sure if that means this is technically a 49 movie boxset, or if it is indeed 50? Whatever dude.
The Lost City was a serial, with 12 original installments and presumably with little cliffhangers at the end of each one which then they would come back to the next week and solve. The plot is a sort of plucking the best (opinion, naturally) parts of a few classic plotlines: the lost civilization thing, mad scientist thing, hollow Earth thing, and then the African tribe / blatant 30s racism thing.
The bare bones in this 3 hour 15 minute thing is that there's a scientist who is in Africa which our hunky heroes need to confront because the scientist is casuing earthquakes. The scientist is trying to get into the Earth or is trying to find a lost civilization or both, and they need to go stop that shit.
Once they get there, they have to deal with this primitive African tribe the scientist has enslaved, and that includes their giant Boyo. There's romance, there's action, there's intrigue...meh, that's the sales pitch anyhow.
It's super long. It's really, really long. 90 minutes in the first movie, 105 minutes on the next. It's 3 hours 15 minutes as said before. In order to not have the repetition caused by the cliffhangers, they edited all those out, which makes the plot not have the dramatic effect either, which makes it incredibly slow and boring.
Maybe there was once interest in this from someone somewhere. Maybe someone out there now would still enjoy it. I won't slam that as a prospect. But it's not for me. I'll give it .5 stars.
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