The story was producer Seth Gordon’s idea, but credit siblings Adam and Aaron Nee (who tested the waters with their Mark Twain-inspired “Band of Robbers”) for sprucing up the formula, while Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum supply the chemistry.
Directed by Aaron and Adam Nee (“Band of Robbers”), “The Lost City” (★★½ out of four; rated PG-13; in theaters Friday) casts Bullock as Loretta Sage, a prickly novelist who, after the death of her archaeologist husband, has lost the will to write her hugely successful romance-adventure franchise.