Based on the popular video game series of the same name, Uncharted follows a young Nathan Drake, street smart and cheeky upstart who steals stuff he shouldn't and chats up women he definitely shouldn't. Enter Sully, a wise cracking artifact hunter who takes Drake under his wing, as he a) knew his older brother, and b) needs help finding the ultimate in lost treasure. Of course its never simple, and the pair get double crossed, shot at, and drive a car out of a cargo plane mid flight. Obviously none of this is to be taken seriously....
I do like the video games this is based on, and in many ways a film adaptation is in no way surprising. The bombastic set piece heavy video game should, on paper at least, lend itself quite nicely to film. The problem is that the film just feels... shallow. It lifts set pieces from the games pretty much wholesale and ties them together with the most generic plot possible. Not helping matters is the fact that the characters are horrendously mis-cast. I like Tom Holland, but as a fan of the games he just doesn't FEEL like the Nathan Drake I know. Mark Wahlberg is too young to play Sully, and I get that this is an origin story of sorts so the characters will be young, but you can't help but feel that he would be much more suited to playing Drake himself.
It's not a bad film by any means, but it feels like a cynical "look game fans - here's that series you like" and "look kids, it's Spider-Man" attempt to generate cash instead of producing a worthy adaptation. Must do better...
I do like the video games this is based on, and in many ways a film adaptation is in no way surprising. The bombastic set piece heavy video game should, on paper at least, lend itself quite nicely to film. The problem is that the film just feels... shallow. It lifts set pieces from the games pretty much wholesale and ties them together with the most generic plot possible. Not helping matters is the fact that the characters are horrendously mis-cast. I like Tom Holland, but as a fan of the games he just doesn't FEEL like the Nathan Drake I know. Mark Wahlberg is too young to play Sully, and I get that this is an origin story of sorts so the characters will be young, but you can't help but feel that he would be much more suited to playing Drake himself.
It's not a bad film by any means, but it feels like a cynical "look game fans - here's that series you like" and "look kids, it's Spider-Man" attempt to generate cash instead of producing a worthy adaptation. Must do better...