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Ramin DjawadiCast:
Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Sophia Ali, Antonio Banderas, Tati Gabrielle, Steven Waddington, Manuel de Blas, Rudy Pankow, Pilou Asbæk, Alana Boden, Nolan North (more)VOD (4)
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Street-smart Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan and lost 500 years ago by the House of Moncada. What starts as a heist job for the duo becomes a globe-trotting, white-knuckle race to reach the prize before the ruthless Santiago Moncada (Antonio Banderas), who believes he and his family are the rightful heirs. If Nate and Sully can decipher the clues and solve one of the world’s oldest mysteries, they stand to find $5 billion in treasure and perhaps even Nate’s long-lost brother...but only if they can learn to work together. (Sony Pictures)
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Adapting a video game series into a grand, adventurous, action-packed movie that looks more magnificent, adventurous, and action-packed than any of its competitors, is a challenging and seemingly unnecessary task. And yet despite endless pre-production delays, changes in the director chair, and an incredible paradox where the actor originally planned for Nathan ended up in the role of Sully, Uncharted is a success. The creators do not need to reinvent the wheel, they allow the main hero to jump, run, and fall as befits the famous franchise, and above all, they remember that most viewers have played the game and will want to experience something familiar. The traditional flaw of game adaptations is possibly eradicated definitively, and the main visual attractions directly quote the third installment or even exaggerate the conclusion of the fourth one. However, what relieved me the most was the interaction between the main duo. Tom Holland is likable and, as a younger Drake, he can fully embrace the traditional acting role, but Mark Wahlberg, as Sullivan, I was dreading for some time only for him to ultimately steal the show. He perfectly captured the essence of the grumbling mentor with a nose for money.
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I haven't played computer games, so I can't compare them to the movie adaptation. For most of the running time, though, I was thinking how incredibly stupid this movie is – in a good way, but also in a bad way – as most of the scenes just happen for the sake of having something happen (at all). Uncharted doesn't lack action or suspense, but unfortunately it also has a lot of illogical moments – but maybe that was creative intent, who knows? The ship sequence had drive, while the plane scene was over the top. In the end, it's as dumb as Lara Croft, just good enough for one viewing. The final "cliffhanger" leaves the door open for a sequel, provided there is money.
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Sahara 2, a bit better perhaps, but certainly not a good film. Tom Holland's Nate is more a kid who often takes his shirt off than a likeable thief with a sense of honour, and Wahlberg's Sully doesn't look much like the video game Sully either. But I'd be quite happy to wave my hand over it, if for God's sake I was having fun and if the story was interesting. Unfortunately, Uncharted is the kind of movie that isn't about the adventure atmosphere, but about the visual effects, that isn't about the characters' relationships, but about them talking and picking on each other all the time, where one character tells another that he acts like Indiana Jones, and another character calls someone else Jack Sparrow, but it's never a joke, it's always cringe. The plot is downright simple, the story unfolds as you expect (except for the bad guy thing, which was rather surprising, but also stupid). For nearly two hours, Uncharted tries, in two big action scenes it boldly defies the laws of physics and logic, but it's either too little or too much. When Nolan North appeared in a cameo role, I didn't have that nice feeling like I did with Stan Lee's cameos in the Marvel movies. I thought I'd rather see a Nate that looked like that.
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I haven't played or seen the games, so I'm only reviewing the film on itself and I have to say that it's definitely not the dud that game fans complain about. On the contrary, Uncharted is a fairly decent National Treasure kind of flick with decent pacing, plenty of action and colourful scenery, and I didn't find Tom Holland bad either, as others have said. To be fair, the film certainly has its faults, especially in the logic department, and personally I would have liked to see more traps, puzzles and quests like in National Treasure, and generally play with the ideas more and make them more entertaining, but that's probably just my wishful thinking. The result is a perfectly fine satisfying adventure ride that, according to the feedback, won't please fans of the game, but for the rest of us it's more than enough.
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The upside of a fast food movie like this for me, as a film collector, is that I save money. There really isn't the slightest reason to invest a single koruna in the Blu-ray of this; and its the same with most movie productions these days. I’ve never liked fast food, I prefer a hearty steak and this thing is like garlic bread. A tedious 120 minutes and the reassurance that the best film adaptation of a PC game is still the 27-year-old Mortal Kombat.
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