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Ramin DjawadiCast:
Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas, Tati Gabrielle, Steven Waddington, Sophia Ali, Patricia Meeden, Sarah Petrick, Jonathan Failla, Matt Barkley (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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So it looks like we'll have to wait for another really good movie based on a game, because Uncharted didn't succeed as much as fans of the source material would have liked. And probably not even adventure movie fans. Making it a prequel turned out to be a smart move, the makers can tell their own story and just reference the game; sometimes a lot, sometimes a little, sometimes totally, and make a good adventure movie first and foremost. But it’s not much of one. The main problem is that it all drags quite a bit, there’s little action, and at some points what happens on screen is almost embarrassing. All the attempts at Indiana Jones-like wandering through corridors, avoiding traps and solving puzzles looks so cheesy that I was reminded of the 1990s series Relic Hunter. The chemistry between Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg is also pretty dour, and that's mostly because Wahlberg is playing more of a scumbag than a likeable bastard, and Holland tries his best, but the flat and predictable script doesn't give him much of a chance to make Nathan Drake a real likeable guy to root for. Fortunately, Uncharted climbs from below average as the runtime progresses, and the finale on the boats is already a lot of good action fun. And it was because of it that I left the cinema feeling actually satisfied. Unfortunately, as soon as I started thinking about the rest of it, the enthusiasm went way down again. A good finish is important, but Uncharted has so many unfinished or uninteresting elements that it makes up for an average adventure at best.
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There's nothing particularly endearing about Uncharted that would make you fall in love with it, unlike the game. However, it's still an enjoyable treasure-hunting adventure packed with incredible action and even more unbelievable effects. In the 80s, this might have felt lacking, but today, it's more than enough for a fun watch.
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Like… Like a lot of yawning more than anything else. It has no pace, no drive, no charisma (and it's not just the Holland/Wahlberg dynamic that doesn't work) and the blatant digitality makes it reprehensibly lifeless. As a result, it is neither a good adventure movie nor a good representative of movies based on video games, but rather a modern Hudson Hawk. Tomb Raider with Alicia fared significantly better in these respects. Better to watch the "Uncharted 4 all/best cutscenes 4k PS5" on YouTube, it's the same thing, just much more polished, better paced despite the longer runtime, with working emotions, better acted and written (especially the dialogues!), better directed (not to mention the set design) and paradoxically less digital.
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I haven’t played the game and I enjoyed this. A modern Indy with lively action, snappy one-liners and entertaining heroes. But it isn’t particularly clever, but at least one twist had me surprised. Two opulent action sequences - the plane and the boats work smoothly, but ignorance of the laws of physics is sometimes a bit annoying. Quite soon, Tom Holland stops being so reminiscent of Peter Parker and in places carries the movie effortlessly on his shoulders. Most of the time, Wahlberg is a self-centered bastard, but reels off some great one-liners. I’m still disappointed that it wasn’t Carnahan who directed this, but in the end it worked out really good.
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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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