“You got a heart of gold Sully”
As someone who does not have extensive knowledge or experience with video games, I cannot speak on the likeness between the film and video game. I do know that I was expecting action packed violence right from the jump and did not receive what I was looking for with this film.
I am an avid lover of action-packed movies, and Uncharted failed to meet my standards for an action movie. The film starts off incredibly slow, with the first real “action” not occurring until 43 minutes into an hour and a half long movie and we are left waiting even longer for action to return to the screen.
Uncharted tells the story of two brothers; Sam and Nate, separated with the promise of being reunited again in the future. The film opens with the two brothers sharing their obsession of a missing treasure worth over $46 billion dollars known as “Magellan’s Gold;" and how a museum map is the key to finding the treasure. The two live in foster care with a fair-sized age gap between the two. When Sam runs from his future in jail, Nate is left behind with the promise that Nate will come back for him.
The film takes elements from other films including The Goonies, National Treasure, The DaVinci Code, The Italian Job and The Oceans Series to combine them all into a “new” treasure hunt action film that lacks originality.
The story centers around the grown up Nate (Tom Holland) and Victor "Sully" Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) as the film's protagonists. Nate being much older now; a jewel thief moonlighting as a bartender in New York City, and Sully, a treasure hunter who knows Nate’s brother. Uncharted has many antagonists including Antonio Banderas who help create an overwhelming feeling to the film’s plot as there are far too many players involved in trying to find and steal this treasure.
Nate has not heard from his brother in a while and Sully convinces Nate to take part in the treasure hunt as well as potentially finding his brother. With Nate being a character designed around brotherly love he accepts the offer to help seek the treasure hidden somewhere around the World.
Holland returns with his Spiderman physique but not his Avenger level fighting skills, where he finds himself on the receiving end of a punch more than once throughout the film. Wahlberg offers his typical wise guy banter throughout the film, but does not do much to save the film as a whole.
The film has themes of trust and whether or not money defines a person’s actions as well as whether or not someone can truly gain redemption.
There is an end credit scene that leaves the film up to interpretation and the possibility of a sequel or prequel to occur.
Unless you are a fan of the Uncharted game series, I am going to recommend a pass on this film and just rewatch National Treasure if you are looking for some action and silly banter with a stronger plot line.
Kyla O'Rielly
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