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

Spoiler Warning: The Lost City (2022)

Putting A-List celebrities in comedic films and subsequently allowing them to flex their funny bones is a time-honored tradition that 2022's The Lost City, directed by Aaron and Adam Nee (The Last Romantic, Band of Robbers), celebrates to the fullest extent.

Here are some of the high profile names from the cast: Sandra Bullock (A Time to Kill, The Blindside) stars as romance novelist Loretta Sage, Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Magic Mike) struts and smolders as the less than intelligent model Alan Caprison, and Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, Swiss Army Man) as the villainous billionaire Abigail Fairfax. The film also features performances from the laugh-out-loud hilarious Oscar Nunez (The Office, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live, Isn't It Romantic), and Patti Harrison (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, Together Together).

However, only one of The Lost City's myriad stars delivers a standout performance. Brad Pitt (Interview with the Vampire, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) makes a relatively brief appearance in the film as Jack Trainer, a combat-ready tough guy with a mane of gorgeous golden locks. Here are a few of the ways in which Brad Pitt's turn as Trainer claimed the hearts of The Lost City moviegoers.

Brad Pitt has unquestionably enraptured audiences for the entirety of his decades-long acting career. The Lost City is not, and those who have not yet seen the film should be wary of this, a Pitt picture. His character disappears as quickly as he appears.

With limited screen time, it's a marvel that Pitt could still exude his world-class charm. Alongside Channing Tatum, who is widely regarded as one of Hollywood's most beautiful actors, Pitt, despite being nearly twenty years Tatum's senior, still exudes a magnificent manliness that rivals the muscle-bound Magic Mike star. As if that wasn't enough, and though Pitt is knocking on sixty's door, his beautiful shoulder-length hair shines so brightly in the jungle sun that audiences around the world reportedly had to don sunglasses.

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. Audiences are not witness to the impact itself. We see blood splatter on The Lost City's two reluctant heroes, and they suddenly find themselves down one Navy SEAL -- a bad place to be on a hostile island.

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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. This allows the film to unfold, free from a fighter able to foil the foul fixations of Radcliffe's Fairfax. In briefly becoming the star of The Lost City, Pitt's character is the genesis for the rest of the film, making his quick turn essential to its success.

Following the sudden, gory exit of Brad Pitt's Jack Trainer from The Lost City, audiences must endure the unthinkable: watching a Pittless picture. 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.

When Jack Trainer reappears at the film's conclusion, casually attending a yoga session alongside Bullock's Sage and Tatum's Caprison, jaws in theaters across this great nation were undoubtedly dropped down somewhere subterranean. That's right. Despite having been shot in the head following a daring rescue mission, Pitt's character shows up seemingly unharmed. In a film like The Lost City, star-studded and rife with explosions, this surprise reveal provides a necessary moment of levity. Though audiences were relieved that the main characters got off the island unharmed and Radcliffe's villain brought to justice, had the filmmakers left Pitt's Jack Trainer dead in the jungle, there would have been riots in the street. Pitt steals the show as this skillful soldier and, as such, secures his survival on screen.

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When folks say that The Lost City was the pits, please understand -- that's a good thing. Brad Pitt belongs to a class of celebrities that the A-List doesn't adequately encompass. He is a national treasure, not dissimilar to the ancient riches sought by those in The Lost City. He's funny, handsome, and somehow, impossibly, also an incredible actor. If for no other reason, go and see The Lost City for your daily dose of Pitt.

Nicholas Johnson is full time cool guy and part time freelance article writer. He has four rescue animals, two dogs, two cats, and no, he doesn't think that makes him better than you.