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“#Uncharted Review: Fumbling a Golden Opportunity<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

     <span class=\"mx-1\">Sony\u2019s movie based on Sony\u2019s video game<\/a> series<\/a> should be a no-brainer, but it misses the mark as even mindless entertainment.<\/span>\n<\/p><div id=\"\">\n\n\n\n                <figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-media<\/a> \">\n            <img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/uncharted-review-tom-holland.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Uncharted Review Tom Holland\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/uncharted-review-tom-holland.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/uncharted-review-tom-holland-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/>                                    <p>\n                    <span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\">Columbia Pictures<\/span>\n\n                        <\/figure>\n\n    <!-- START BYLINE -->\n    <div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\">\n        By\u00a0Christopher Campbell\u00a0\u00b7 Published on February 16th, 2022 \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- END BYLINE -->\n\n    The act of adapting a video game is taking an interactive story and removing the fun part \u2014 the playing of the game \u2014 which is the predominant draw of the medium. So the movie has to enhance the entertainment value of the story, whether that\u2019s with over-the-top character portrayals (see <em>Sonic the Hedgehog<\/em>) or the sort of intense scares and action you\u2019d expect from any good genre fare (see <em>Silent Hill<\/em> and some of the better <em>Resident Evil<\/em> installments). <em><strong>Uncharted<\/strong><\/em>, based on Sony\u2019s hit video game series, gets points for at least making an effort with its outrageous characterizations and cinematic thrills. But it never overcomes two major problems: the \u201cheroes\u201d are unlikeable rogues, and their adventure is entirely based on greed. They\u2019re indistinguishable from the \u201cvillains\u201d in both regards.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Following an unnecessary bit of action in media res, the movie goes back 15 years to introduce us to orphan brothers Nathan and Sam Drake as they attempt to steal a map from a museum. Sam runs away, leaving his brother behind, and the next time we see Nathan, now played as an adult by Tom Holland<\/strong>, he\u2019s a bartender and petty thief who snatches jewelry off his customers while waiting on them. In comes Victor \u201cSully\u201d Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg<\/strong>) with a proposition. Together, they will embark on a trip<\/a> to find a lost treasure of gold dumped by the survivors of the Magellan expedition<\/a> in 1522 \u2014 and maybe also find the long-lost Sam. After an internet search that lets Nathan and us in on who Sully is as a person\/character, they team up and plan an auction-house heist.<\/p>\n
That plan goes somewhat wrong, and it\u2019s only the first of many fumbles made by the protagonists. Are we meant to be reminded that Nathan is a video game character and so by nature has a fallible brain \u2013 i.e. that of an everyday ordinary gamer \u2013 within his perfect superhero-fit body? At times he seems like a kid who has suddenly been given parkour skills but doesn\u2019t exactly know what to do with them. Both Nathan and Sully are constantly dumbfounded by their luck as if they weren\u2019t sure they could actually pull off any of the steps in their operation. Wahlberg, in particular, looks stunned most of the time as he utters \u201choly shit!\u201d or \u201care you kidding me?!\u201d in moments of astoundment coupled with relief. The two of them are nothing but knucklehead bros playing Indiana Jones.<\/p>\n
But Indiana Jones, in addition to being more confident, has a moral code defining his treasure hunting exploits. He believes the artifacts he seeks belong in a museum (an honorable notion that is also a debatable one in certain global contexts) and definitely not in the hands of Nazis. Nathan and Sully just want the gold for themselves. As do the other mercenaries and henchmen they encounter, whether they be allies or adversaries (including far more interesting characters played by Sophia Ali<\/strong> and Tati Gabrielle<\/strong>, plus Steven Waddington<\/strong> as a Scottish accent personified). The big bad of Uncharted<\/em>, Santiago Moncada (Antonio Banderas<\/strong>), may in fact be the most entitled to the riches given that his ancestors financed the expedition in the first place so many centuries ago. What makes Nathan the one we should care about to find and walk away with the gold? He\u2019s just the guy who wins the game, as it were.<\/p>\n
That would be fine if he was sold as an antihero who then has to grow as a character, out of his small-time swindling and into someone more virtuous. Other characters tell him he\u2019s a \u201cgood guy\u2026 too good,\u201d but the movie doesn\u2019t really do anything to show us that about him outside of his being more trusting than everyone else. That\u2019s not good, it\u2019s naive. Meanwhile, Sully is allotted the end of a character arc but not the beginning of one. To make up for their being underwritten, though, the movie does something even worse with the duo: it gives them incessant banter as though they\u2019re supposed to be the ill-matched main characters in a buddy comedy, always bickering and jabbing for no other reason than to have them babbling on and on, perhaps to distract from the lackluster plot.<\/p>\n
Of course, they keep on with the jokey back and forth even when the movie ups the action in the third act. Without going into spoilers, Uncharted<\/em> delivers one of the more original and spectacular set-pieces in recent memory, at least conceptually. Ruben Fleischer<\/strong>\u2019s directorial execution of this sequence \u2013 and as a result the editorial execution, as well \u2013 leaves a lot to be desired. But there are a number of shots where it all looks cool enough to achieve a sufficient wow factor. Then, it\u2019s over, and so is the movie, sort of (there are two gratuitous end-credits scenes), and there\u2019s no payoff to any of it. Blockbuster entertainment is often excused for being empty and mindless amusement, but shouldn\u2019t one based on a video game offer a feeling of mission accomplished?<\/p>\n
Maybe it\u2019s unfair to view Uncharted<\/em> as \u201ca video game movie\u201d first and simply a movie second. Should it do more or less, or should we even expect anything different from or excuse it as such for what it is? The movie begins with a logo for PlayStation Productions (the first film under this banner), so it\u2019s hard to go in ignoring its video game connection. What viewers want out of something like this, whether they\u2019re familiar with the games or not, will determine its success level to them. Still, anyone going out to the movies (these days especially) deserves a piece of entertainment that stands out on its own by having memorable moments, main characters who aren\u2019t insufferable, and an ending that satisfies the promise that what has occurred beforehand has meant something.<\/p>\n
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\n            Christopher Campbell began writing film criticism and covering film festivals for a zine called Read<\/em>, back when a zine could actually get you Sundance press credentials. He’s now a Senior Editor at FSR and the founding editor of our sister site Nonfics<\/a>. He also regularly contributes to Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes and is the President of the Critics Choice Association’s Documentary Branch.        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“#Uncharted Review: Fumbling a Golden Opportunity” <span class=”mx-1″>Sony\u2019s movie based on Sony\u2019s video game series should be a no-brainer, but it misses the mark as even mindless entertainment.<\/span> <\/p><div id=””> <figure class=”sf-entry-featured-media “> <img width=”800″ height=”500″ src=”https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/uncharted-review-tom-holland.jpg” class=”articlethumb wp-post-image” alt=”Uncharted Review Tom Holland” srcset=”https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/uncharted-review-tom-holland.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/uncharted-review-tom-holland-768×480.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px”\/> <p> <span class=”sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline”>Columbia…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/uncharted-review-tom-holland.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}