Fountain of Youth
Fountain of Youth
Two estranged siblings join forces to seek the legendary Fountain of Youth. Using historical clues, they embark on an epic quest filled with adventure. If successful, the mythical fountain could grant them immortality.
Kevin Ward reviewedJune 30, 2025
In one particularly tense scene, Luke (Krasinski) is caught between two groups of gun wielding foes. Unarmed, but thinking fast, Luke turns the volume up on the stereo, grabs a blanket and throws it up into the air and then drops down to the floor beneath the table. It’s a move I can only assume may have worked if he was being hunted by a group of golden retrievers, they surely would have believed he had disappeared. But it in fact works fantastically here and Luke is able to escape unscathed.
Despite my lowest of low expectations… and despite the fact that for the first 2/3rds of the film I was at least passively entertained….that final act is just so stupid. Krasinski just does not work as the pompous-art-thief-slash-playboy….and I’m kind of having a hard time thinking of roles that I’ve liked him in aside from Jim on The Office and the original A Quiet Place. Like the blanket bit I described above, there’s plenty of other questionable choices here. Like, there’s a dolly zoom in a completely inconsequential scene. They’ve been on a globe trotting adventure and yet at the end Portman’s character finds a key like 2 feet away from the door it unlocked. It’s preposterously bad by the end. Also, my kids had zero interest in watching this and I think I’m proud of them.