Fountain of Youth movie review: We never got a third National Treasure movie, and thanks to Guy Ritchie, we still haven't

After he directed Aladdin — the anonymous 2019 remake that you'd forgotten made over $1 billion at the box office — Guy Ritchie became extremely prolific almost overnight.

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He made another movie that same year. But more importantly, Aladdin marked a major stylistic evolution for the famously flashy filmmaker: he got really into clothes. Nowadays, you find yourself admiring the tailoring in his films more than the films themselves. There is little, for instance, to like about Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre. But, boy, was Cary Elwes dressed smartly. Unfortunately, the costumes in Ritchie's recent films are inversely proportional to their quality. The worse the movie, the better the clothes. The clothes in his latest, Fountain of Youth, are excellent.

Starring John Krasinski and Natalie Portman as estranged siblings who go on an epic adventure to locate the fabled Fountain of Youth, the movie comes across as a third copy of Indiana Jones. Even Nicolas Cage’s two National Treasure films had more spark than Ritchie’s overwritten, bloated, and unevenly paced new adventure film. Fountain of Youth has a tremendously fun pre-titles sequence, where Krasinski’s character, an adventurer named Luke, steals a valuable painting in Bangkok and evades capture from a gang of goons and a mysterious woman played by Eiza Gonzalez.