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Uncharted Movie Review: Too 'Gamey' for comfort
Updated On: 18 February, 2022 03:53 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
The action landscape here is largely populated by ‘Spider-man’ like antics – so Holland has little to do other than channel his Spider-man stunts
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A still from `Uncharted`
Uncharted
Dir: Ruben Fleischer
Cast: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas
Rating: 2.5/5
An award-winning video game franchise - the Naughty Dog games whose first installment dropped on PlayStation in 2007, (from the Sony games library) gets a movie makeover and it feels so mechanically engineered that attachment doesn’t even begin to take root. The film version was in development for several years and the casting choices that changed as the project got parcelled off from one production team to another, don’t make it an attractive proposition either way.
Fleischer plots together a mash-up of sequences from the games beginning with Uncharted 4 – a flashback showing rebellious older brother Sam making a promise to a very young Nate Drake… but as the story progresses we learn that Sam has all but disappeared. The now Young Adult Nate (Tom Holland), working as a bartender and Pick-pocket hustler on the side, gets recruited by Sully( Mark Wahlberg) to team up and uncover the lost treasure of Magellan. But there’s more than one party interested in the prized loot – including Santiago (Antonio Banderas) Moncada, aided by his very own slippery army of thieves. Incidentally, the Moncada family is supposed to have funded the Magellan mission, the Spanish Inquisition and the Franco regime.
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