Someone forgot to tell Guy Ritchie that the charm of an adventure film like, The Mummy for example, was the setting and the characters. Unfortunately, Fountain of Youth mistakes jumping to a different location/country every other scene makes its exciting and giving characters basic personalities makes them easy to digest. But in fact, what you end up with is a cross between National Treasure and The Mummy with none of what made those films enjoyable and long lasting.
When disgraced archaeologist Luke Pardue puts together a team to find the Fountain of Youth, he realises he’s missing an important piece, his museum curator sister, Charlotte. Eventually the siblings team up and race to find the fountain while being tracked by a mysterious group who wishes to protect the fountain at all costs.
On paper, this film may have seemed like a hit. An adventure film with impossible puzzles, a decent cast, fight/chase scenes and heart warming feel by the end. But all the film is, is a shadow of the original Indiana Jones films with no coherent plot, by the numbers characters and the true villain revealing himself minutes before the end of the film, with a little bit of mythology thrown in. The film is incredibly misleading in what it should have offered, especially with all the right ingredients but the film was bound to fail at the first hurdle; the script. There are plenty of elements that could have been fixed before the cameras started rolling and it seems bizarre that none of the mediocrity was picked up!
The film will not sit along side the like of other films in the same genre and will disappear into streaming hell, hopefully.