In The Lost Lands. Milla Jovovich & Dave Bautista

In The Lost Lands

Action/Adventure, Horron

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Adventure 

Rating: 4.7 / 10

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Cast: Milla Jovovich as Gray Alys 

Dave Bautista as Boyce

Movie Review 

In the future, the world has collapsed in on itself, everything is dead or dying, and the remnants of the Noahide people take refuge in a single dark and distant city, shrouded in shadow, anguish, and torment.

Why?

Who knows? In this future, there lives a powerful witch who everyone seems to want to kill, but this witch, Grey Alys, survives.

Part of her longevity is due to her magical ability to make eye contact and make any object, human or wild animal, see what she wants them to see.His savior's grace is also that he should fulfill every wish that anyone asks of him.

I don't refuse anyone. She will expand when asked. And people always ask. But her expression immediately reveals a bitter truth. Desires always lead to some kind of disaster or another.

So, when the city's queen arrives with a request to gain the ability to shapeshift into a werewolf, Alice dutifully replies, "I refuse no one."

But why does the Queen want such a capability? And when the country captain and secret lover later asked if Alice had been successful in this request, Alys once again declared that she could not refuse.

Somehow Gray Alice needs to fulfill their request which may even contradict each other.

It will take him to the lost lands through large-scale enclosures.They'll find a werewolf there. And they must also stay one step ahead of the corrupt crusader-like churchmen who want Gray Alys' skin.

Oh, and Alice doesn't know that Boyce is also one of the Queen's many lovers, and he may even be the father of the child growing in her womb.

Oh, how this witch is now clinging to a twisted web.

But it comes to the conclusion that Gray Alys can't deny why? Only she knows for sure.

Positive Elements

At some points, Gray Alice and Boyce fight and bicker, risking their lives to protect each other, while at other points they try to kill each other. Later in the film, Gray Alice apologizes for her role in the deaths of two characters.

Spiritual Elements

While the narrative lacks any trace of Biblical spirituality, it presents a faction of power-obsessed men and women — led by a knightly crusader figure known as The Enforcer as a symbolic "Church." These enforcers adorn their garments with small crosses. We also see them force a man to balance on a wooden cross while he tries to avoid suffocation while hanging from the executioner's noose. These church thugs also inflict punishments such as crucifixion.

"The Witch," Gray Alys, exhibits unexplained magical abilities.With a single gaze, she traps people in disturbing visions—visions that drive them to murder or manipulate others, all for her gain.The visions usually involve some form of shape-shifting transformation or deadly imagery.

Once, Gray Alys lutes and she walks in a weight trance when she sees the werewolf attacking a group of victims.Gray Alice confessed that her gift for sensing circumstances and meeting others' desires was, in fact, part of her curse.

Conclusion

Director Paul Anderson seems to take several cues from other dystopian-minded creators with his film In the Lost Land.

Like Frank Miller's Sin City, for example, Anderson's latest effort is shrouded in deep shadow. And that moody, cinematic patina coats this bloody, apocalyptic tale  reportedly adapted from a short story by George R.R. Martin with a glowing sense of melancholy.

It doesn’t mean the film is actually good. Lost Lands has too much guesswork and too little substance in its mix. There's emotion here.

The final result is a dark and deadly pastiche. Everyone, even the scantily clad, lustful queen of the church of values, wants to kill everyone here. And so many snake-like creatures fall from their eyes, tear me apart with their beastly claws and kill me quickly with a small knife.

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