Brad Pitt

How Brad Pitt's performance (however brief) as Jack Trainer steals the show in the star-studded jungle romp The Lost City.

In a film like The Lost City, star-studded and rife with explosions, this surprise reveal provides a necessary moment of levity. In The Lost City, Pitt's Jack Trainer exits the screen in a manner not dissimilar to his character Chad from Burn After Reading. After mounting a heroic rescue campaign of Sandra Bullock's Loretta Sage, Pitt briefly pauses to speak with Bullock and Tatum's characters and is subsequently shot in the head by an unseen bad guy. This classic comedy piece was perhaps the funniest moment in The Lost City. Just as Brad Pitt's Jack Trainer cements himself as the main character's best hope of survival, he is brutally taken from them. While the rest of this star-studded cast certainly hold their own as the action and comedy continue, one cannot help but feel that a little something is missing. The Lost City is not, and those who have not yet seen the film should be wary of this, a Pitt picture. However, only one of The Lost City's myriad stars delivers a standout performance.