Uncharted is based off of the successful series of video games on the Sony Playstation and stars Tom Holland as Nathan Drake a young man working as a bartender who one night meets a man named Sully (Mark Wahlberg) who knew his older brother Sam who went missing looking for a lost fortune of gold said to be worth billions of dollars but the descendant of the original family who found the fortune hundreds of years ago (Antonio Banderas) eyes a mysterious cross that could be the key to finding the lost fortune but Drake and Sully also want that cross so they can find the fortune for themselves.
Uncharted was for me not a great film and regrettably after getting off to a good start 2022 has served up its first turkey of a film and firstly I have to start with the films storytelling, it has some fun action scenes such as one with a line of cargo boxes on an aircraft but so often this movie resorts to every 2nd or 3rd scene being a double cross, every other line being a sarcastic joke and so many of the actors treating the script with this frivolous tone that I just got so fucking sick of it sitting there watching it in the cinema.
Now don’t get me wrong both Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade have humorous moments in them but not to the extent where it undercut the tone of “We have to find this object before the Nazis do or the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the Earth” that those films have, the influence of Joss Whedon in the last 10 years is one that I really really really wish would stop because I’m just that sick of all the cynical frivolousness of many modern movies nowadays where everyone seems to just treat everything like a joke well sir I ain’t laughing,
As for the cast well their for the most part either wasted or boring, Tom Holland is a good young actor who has proven himself to be more than capable of carrying a film but this is the second time in a row where the film he’s in doesn’t either seem willing or able to trust him to carry it all on his shoulders and last time it was for nostalgic fanservice this time it feels like he’s in a straitjacket while other characters take the spotlight and I just thought “Piss off you, I want to watch Holland do all this” and when he does get to do some of the puzzle solving its great but there wasn’t enough of it.
As for Mark Wahlberg well he’s Mark Wahlberg and he’s becoming another Nic Cage, Jeff Goldblum and Samuel L Jackson where he just plays himself rather than a character and here it’s the usual fast breathing and talking in the Mark Wahlberg voice can you hear it while you reading this because I can hear it while I’ve written this review and in some of the bartender scenes I thought of the 1988 film Cocktail with Tom Cruise and Bryan Brown and I wish that a Bryan Brown type had been cast as Sully instead as someone like that could’ve been the cynic but still have that heart of good and that doesn’t come across in Wahlberg’s work here.
As for Antonio Banderas well what a waste of a great talent here being given a thankless role and like Holland tries his best to make it work but the film itself just doesn’t want to let them shine in it, there are 2 ladies here Sophia Ali and Tati Gabrielle and Ali has her moments but again just can’t make anything work in this material and Gabrielle was so forgettable I didn’t really care about her much.
And so that was Uncharted and I did not care for this one much I’m afraid, it all just feels like a waste of potential and a waste of a good cast and that’s just sad given what is capable nowadays, 1 out of 5.
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