![]() It’s a bold move, considering the number of video game film adaptations that have crashed and burned, but with the charismatic Holland as its star, it just may pay off. You can’t say that the makers of Uncharted lack confidence, since the film ends with the sort of cliffhanger that basically promises a sequel. Sully’s longtime treasure hunting associate Chloe Frazer (a charismatic Sophie Ali) more than keeps up with the guys when it comes to physical derring-do, and Moncado’s blade-wielding henchwoman Braddock (Tati Gabrielle, fearsome) is a homicidal villainess who could give James Bond a run for his money. Refreshingly, it’s the female characters who are the most badass. Uncharted bounces these characters off each other on a journey to Spain and the Philippines, but nothing has any weight to it. To cut to the chase, Uncharted is going to. Moncada’s will is enforced by the tough Jo Braddock ( Tati Gabrielle) and the boys reunite with an old colleague of Sully’s in Barcelona named Chloe Frazier ( Sophia Ali, who pretty much steals the movie). The film features plenty of photogenic real-life locations and some genuinely exciting action sequences, including the aforementioned airplane scene - which opens the film and is reprised later on - and a breathless battle involving airborne 16 th-century sailing ships. Due to a change in director, from Shawn Levy to Ruben Fleischer, the film couldnt be released at the expected time. As made evident by his many shirtless scenes, the actor clearly buffed up for the role, the better to perform the numerous high-octane stunts that include falling out of an airplane and a lengthy parkour-style foot chase. This star vehicle doesn’t exactly feel like a stretch for Holland, since his Nate, an expert pickpocket, is basically a more larcenous Peter Parker minus the web-spinning - at one point, he apologizes to a bad guy he’s just sent plummeting to his death, which is exactly what Peter would do. (Or maybe the actor was just annoyed at disappearing from the story for long stretches of time.) Wahlberg’s Sully looks and behaves disgruntled so much of the time that you begin to wonder how these two went on to form a long-running partnership. More problematically, Nate and Sully, mutually supportive in the games, here come across like a bickering couple on the verge of divorce. Or wittier exchanges than Sully constantly teasing Nate about his gum-chewing and Nate responding in kind about Sully’s habit of leaving too many open apps on his cell phone. Or more interesting villains than the ruthless Santiago Moncada, played by Antonio Banderas in a performance that can best be described as detached. Still, it would have been nice if screenwriters Rafe Lee Judkins, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway had come up with something more interesting than this generic adventure in which Nate and Sully team up to first commit a robbery at a high-end auction house and then head to exotic locales in search of Ferdinand Magellan’s lost treasure of gold. Director Ruben Fleischer knows his way around this sort of material, having previously helmed such movies as Venom and Zombieland, and he understands that the target audience isn’t particularly interested in deep characterizations or sophisticated dialogue. Although little is known about the film’s plot, there has been. Resembling the love child of Tomb Raider, Raiders of the Lost Ark and National Treasure, Uncharted definitely feels like a video game adaptation, so rapidly segueing from one elaborate action set piece to another that your fingers may start twitching while watching it. Uncharted features Tom Holland as the Nathan Drake, alongside Mark Wahlberg as his legendary sidekick, Victor Sully Sullivan. In the words of our greatest cinematic treasure hunter, it belongs in a museum.Tom Holland Breaks Free: Talking Zendaya, 'The Crowded Room' and the Future of Spider-Man “ finds no new territory for the treasure-hunting flick. “Tom Holland is fun to watch and has good chemistry with Mark Wahlberg (…) This should be effective in introducing the world of ‘Uncharted’ to people who are meeting Nate and friends for the first time” Jeffrey Vega: IGN “For better or worse, you can probably feel the same level of satisfaction after watching Nathan complete than in trying to lose yourself in the superficiality of the entire journey.” Todd Gilchrist: The Wrap We have watched him in Interview with the Vampire alongside Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, Philadelphia (with Tom Hanks), Assassins (1995), Evita (1996), and T he Mask of Zorro. Depostiphotos Antonio BanderasĪntonio Banderas became known for his films with the Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar: Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! ( Átame) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
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