Have you ever wondered what it be look like if someone intentionally created a movie combining The African Queen and Pirates of the Caribbean with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in the role of Humphrey Bogart/Johnny Depp?
No?
Neither had I.
Yet, someone did and this movie is the result.
To be fair, I personally think that Dwayne Johnson is actually very good. Emily Blunt does an equally good job with the role of a Victorian female adventuress and Jack Whitehall is a sketch as her clueless brother/assistant (even if both roles do seem to generally be lifted more or less from The Mummy).
In the end nothing in the movie is particular original and very little is surprising (The parts that did surprise me probably did only because I never bothered to pay any attention to trailers for it). Regretfully, there is no real chemistry between Blunt
and Johnson, so the inevitable romantic subplot between them feels
unearned, out of place and frankly unnecessary. Still, I found the movie to be a fun way to spend a couple of hours.
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