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In the Lost Lands
2025 101 min Germany, Switzerland R 18+
★4.7
Action, Fantasy, Western
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
🎭 Based on
«In the Lost Lands»
byGeorge R. R. Martin
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Description
A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where she and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight both man and demon.
Budget:
$55M
US Gross:
$1.87M
Worldwide:
$4.76M
Starring
Milla Jovovich
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Dave Bautista
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Arly Jover
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Awards
3 nominations total
Key opinion
In the Lost Lands is widely regarded as a derivative and hollow disappointment that fails to leverage its source material or talented cast. While the visual world-building occasionally offers stylistic flair, the film is ultimately undermined by a thin, predictable plot and a lack of chemistry between its leads.
| Screenplay | The screenplay is consistently criticized as being lazy, thin, and lacking in originality, relying heavily on tropes from other dystopian and fantasy franchises. | |
| Acting | The film’s central duo of Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista lacks the necessary chemistry to elevate the narrative, resulting in flat, underdeveloped character dynamics. | |
| Production | The visual presentation receives mixed reactions: some reviewers praise the imaginative world-building and striking aesthetic choices, while others find the CGI and post-production filters to be cheap, murky, or overly reliant on digital effects. | |
| Direction | The direction by Paul W.S. Anderson is seen as competent within budget constraints by some, yet criticized by others as being the director's weakest effort to date. |