After years in development hell, a film adaptation of Naughty Dog’s Uncharted adventure video game series is finally here.
Acting as a prequel/origin story for Uncharted’s characters, the film stars Tom Holland as a young and inexperienced Nathan Drake (descendant of famed explorer Sir Francis Drake) who is brought onboard treasure hunter and conman Victor “Sully” Sullivan’s (Mark Wahlberg) quest to find Ferdinand Magellan’s 500-year-old lost fortune. The pair, aided by another treasure hunter Chloe Frazer (Sophia Ali), must reach the treasure before the evil Santiago Moncada (Antonio Banderas).
While Tom Holland is believable as a young Nathan Drake, he has no chemistry with Mark Wahlberg, who never comes close to resembling his video game counterpart. The supporting cast are also bland, even Antonio Banderas who is normally fun in villainous roles is horribly under-utilised here. The CGI is mostly poor and the dialogue is frequently atrocious and the banter between Nate and Sully isn’t nearly as fun as the film thinks it is. The action is serviceable with the exception being the admittedly enjoyable, over the top and cartoonish climactic action sequence involving two pirate ships suspended from helicopters. The clue solving scenes are tedious and the usually superb Ramin Djawadi delivers a shockingly underwhelming score.
A bland, rather forgettable actioner, but good fun for fans of the Uncharted game.
Reviewed by Jordan Ellis
Fun for fans 2 stars
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