History Film / TheLostCity

* UnflinchingWalk: Partially averted. Loretta and Alan are startled by the explosions as they flee Fairfax's camp. Jack, who set them off, isn't.

* AgeGapRomance: Loretta is in her mid-50's, while Alan is no older than 40 (Channing Tatum's age during filming) and could very well still be in his 30's.

* UnflinchingWalk: Averted. Jack, Loretta, and Alan are all startled by the explosions as they flee Fairfax's camp.

* ShipTease: Trainer puts the charm on Loretta as he rescues her. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: it doesn't last as he gets (presumably) killed mid-sentence.]]

* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: It's all but said aloud that this is how Abigail Fairfax is seen in-universe: a rich scion of a media mogul that keeps squandering daddy's money on one after another extravagant, yet failed archaeological expedition, in a vain attempt to make a name for himself. All he achieved so far was just cementing his public perception as a failure. And given the ending, [[spoiler: likely tarnishing his reputation beyond recovery]].

* BrokenHeel: By the time Loretta comes down the cliff [[spoiler: where their car has fallen]], both her shoes lack their stilettos.

* TheDragon: Julian serves as this to Fairfax.

* InstantLeechJustFallInWater: Alan runs afoul of this after fleeing Fairfax's {{Mooks}} in a river, with leeches covering his lower back that Loretta has to peel off of him.

* PushyGunTotingVillain: Fairfax slowly becomes this the closer they get to the treasure. He later becomes a full-blown PGTV when they discover [[spoiler: that the Crown of Fire was actually a headpiece made of seashells, and the treasure was the love between the king and queen of the island.]] Fairfax then [[spoiler: forces Loretta and Alan into the tomb]] at gunpoint.

* SecondFaceSmoke: After Loretta is captured the second time, one of Fairfax's mooks blows cigar smoke in her face. (He holds her responsible for the death of two other mooks.)

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Jack is suddenly shot in the head while he’s in middle of untying Loretta.]] [[spoiler: Subverted later on in the mid credit [[TheStinger stinger]] as Jack revealed to be alive and well]].

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Alan's appearance when he's modeling for Loretta's books resembles that of Fabio, with the long blond hair and unfastened shirt fronts.

* ApatheticCitizens: The movie points out that the volcano only is endangering the southern side of the island, but it's established that there's a village within a day's walking distance from the danger area where things are so laid back they're having a festival. Air traffic is still coming into the airport of an island with an active volcano. In reality, the entire island would be under watch even on the slight chance the volcano erupts in an unexpected way.

** Jack Trainer has proven his absolute badass skills by defeating multiple {{mooks}} with Alan trailing behind unhelpfully and then safely rescuing Loretta. They'll surely escape now, right? Cue BoomHeadshot.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The film goes its way to initially portray Alan as a self-centered BrainlessBeauty that's egotistical and considers himself, a body model, more important than Loretta, the writer of the series he "stars" in. However, when she ends up kidnapped, not only does he organize a quick rescue effort, but once she's out of Fairfax compound, he takes care of her, even bringing her favourite snack among the more essential things.

* DueToTheDead: Abigail dismissively notes that Rafi thinks digging all over his home island to steal a queen's crown is disrespectful to his culture and ancestors. When the group actually finds her tomb, Rafi's forced to help open the coffin at gunpoint and immediately says, [[ForcedIntoEvil "Sorry, Abuela."]] [[spoiler:Being forced to shut Alan and Loretta in the tomb where they'll most likely die as well is his last straw, so [[TheDogBitesBack he steals Abigail's boat when the island's volcano starts erupting]] and yells at him, "You want to own the island, but [[MoneyIsNotPower the island will own you soon]]."]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: Rafi might be a hired muscle, but he shows great care about both his home island and is uneasy about all the abuse Fairfax put Loretta and Alan through. [[spoiler: Ultimately he just bails on his boss, leaving him stranded, while also smuggling a crowbar for Alan and Loretta, allowing them to escape, too]].

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:When Fairfax orders Rafi to bury Loretta and Alan in a stone tomb after realizing that there was no treasure, Rafi secretly slips his crowbar in the tomb so Alan can pry the stone open to allow them to escape.]]
* HiddenDepths: While he sure can be and act dumb, Alan isn't a BrainlessBeauty. He has various useful hobbies and skills and when situation calls for it, can improvise solutions. He also used to absolutely loath being a cover model and even felt humiliated about the whole gig, until he figured how much happiness he brings to people.

** Alan and Loretta escape Fairfax's men and make their way to a town, where they contact the police [[spoiler:only for Fairfax to show up and take Loretta hostage a second time.]]

* JadedWashout: Loretta considers herself to be the case, for her academic career went nowhere, then she got reduced into writing trashy romance novels and ''then'' she got burned out of doing even that. And somewhere along the way, her husband died, something she's unable to move on with. As various characters point out, she's much better than she thinks, but actively chose to sulk in a corner.

* SiblingRivalry: Abigail Fairfax's motivation for finding the Crown of Fire is very transparently to show off his younger brother Leslie, who was [[PassedOverInheritance given control of the family's media empire over Abigail]].

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The film goes its way to initially portray Alan as a self-centered BrainlessBeauty that's egoistic and considers himself, a body model, more important than Loretta, the writer of the series he "stars" in. However, when she ends up kidnapped, not only he organises a quick rescue effort, but once she's out of Fairfax compound, takes care of her, even bringing her favourite snack among the more essential things.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Rifi might be a hired muscle, but he shows great care about both his home island and is uneasy about all the abuse Fairfax put Loretta and Alan through. [[spoiler: Ultimately he just bails on his boss, leaving him stranded, while also smuggling a crowbar for Alan and Loretta, allowing them to escape, too]].

* HiddenDepths: While he sure can be and act dumb, Alan isn't a BrainlessBeauty. He has various useful hobbies and skills and when situation calls for it, can improvise solutions. He also used to absolutely loath being a cover model and even humiliated about the whole gig, until he figured how much happiness he brings to people.

** At the first stop of Loretta's book tour, she's bored by all the middle-aged housewives that just want to ogle Alan, so she picks a young woman in thick glasses who looks like she might actually have an intelligent question...but it turns out she's just as thirsty as the others.

* NewMediaAreEvil: Allison, the young assistant to handle Loretta's social media, is highly cynical and [[LackOfEmpathy has empathy of a cinder block]]. While Loretta ends up being kidnapped and first Alan and then Beth go for a rescue, Allison is busy posting superfluous and obviously ghost-written posts, full of [[invoked]] [[EngineeredHashtag #Engineered Hashtags]].

* PoliceAreUseless: Played for laughs. By the time Beth manages to finally get two beat cops to inform them about Loretta's kidnapping, Alan and Jack Trainer have already broke her out of Fairfax clutches. The cop duo is quite openly dismissive to the whole issue and once Beth tries to threaten them, they just blew her, telling her it's outside their jurisdiction anyway if it happens outside the city, not to mention country.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/RomancingTheStone'' - a romance novel author ends up on a crazy, dangerous adventure and finds her love in form of her unlikely ally. The main difference is that ''The Lost City'' is DenserAndWackier.
* TheStinger: The mid credit shows [[spoiler: Loretta and Alan as a couple in the meditation center . They’re later surprised to find out that the person who meditates behind them is Jack Trainer, who is revealed to have survived a head shot, though he has lost a part of his brain]].

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Isla Hundida is said to be located in the middle of the North Atlantic, despite being shown to have a tropical climate and be covered with jungles, and that the island is only accessible by puddle jumper from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea Guinea]], all of which would place it nearer to the equator.