Uncharted

Like… Like a lot of yawning more than anything else. It has no pace, no drive, no charisma (and it's not just the Holland/Wahlberg dynamic that doesn't work) and the blatant digitality makes it reprehensibly lifeless. As a result, it is neither a good adventure movie nor a good representative of movies based on video games, but rather a modern Hudson Hawk. Tomb Raider with Alicia fared significantly better in these respects. Better to watch the "Uncharted 4 all/best cutscenes 4k PS5" on YouTube, it's the same thing, just much more polished, better paced despite the longer runtime, with working emotions, better acted and written (especially the dialogues!), better directed (not to mention the set design) and paradoxically less digital. (04/27/2022)

Ruben Fleischer deliver an adaptation of the famous video game “Uncharted”, and although it doesn't break the curse of movies based on games, it is a likeable and entertaining adventure, the kind that is missing in cinemas, and certainly doesn't disgrace the game. I'm a big fan of the director, I love Gangster Squad, Zombieland and Venom, and Uncharted can easily stand alongside them. Tom Holland is great and comes off as a big personality, and he is well supported by Mark Wahlberg, who is an entertaining part of the whole film. The female characters don't stick out that much and the female protagonist is a bit bland, but I can get past that. The film has likeable visuals, solid pacing, fun characters, an engaging story and solid action, though there are only two proper set-pieces, but the finale is long, imaginative and epic enough (the reference to Pirates of the Caribbean was great), and a couple of Easter eggs to play with as well. It's quite comparable to the recent Tomb Raider adaptation and for me definitely better than the recent adventure movies with The Rock. I had a decent time and it's great to be back at the cinema after a long time! Story 3/5, Action 4/5, Humour 3/5, Violence 0/5, Fun 4/5 Music 4/5, Visuals 4/5, Atmosphere 3/5, Suspense 3/5, Emotion 2/5, Actors 4/5. 7.5/10. (02/13/2022)

The upside of a fast food movie like this for me, as a film collector, is that I save money. There really isn't the slightest reason to invest a single koruna in the Blu-ray of this; and its the same with most movie productions these days. I’ve never liked fast food, I prefer a hearty steak and this thing is like garlic bread. A tedious 120 minutes and the reassurance that the best film adaptation of a PC game is still the 27-year-old Mortal Kombat. (04/28/2022)

Sahara 2, a bit better perhaps, but certainly not a good film. Tom Holland's Nate is more a kid who often takes his shirt off than a likeable thief with a sense of honour, and Wahlberg's Sully doesn't look much like the video game Sully either. But I'd be quite happy to wave my hand over it, if for God's sake I was having fun and if the story was interesting. Unfortunately, Uncharted is the kind of movie that isn't about the adventure atmosphere, but about the visual effects, that isn't about the characters' relationships, but about them talking and picking on each other all the time, where one character tells another that he acts like Indiana Jones, and another character calls someone else Jack Sparrow, but it's never a joke, it's always cringe. The plot is downright simple, the story unfolds as you expect (except for the bad guy thing, which was rather surprising, but also stupid). For nearly two hours, Uncharted tries, in two big action scenes it boldly defies the laws of physics and logic, but it's either too little or too much. When Nolan North appeared in a cameo role, I didn't have that nice feeling like I did with Stan Lee's cameos in the Marvel movies. I thought I'd rather see a Nate that looked like that. (02/12/2022)

I haven’t played the game and I enjoyed this. A modern Indy with lively action, snappy one-liners and entertaining heroes. But it isn’t particularly clever, but at least one twist had me surprised. Two opulent action sequences - the plane and the boats work smoothly, but ignorance of the laws of physics is sometimes a bit annoying. Quite soon, Tom Holland stops being so reminiscent of Peter Parker and in places carries the movie effortlessly on his shoulders. Most of the time, Wahlberg is a self-centered bastard, but reels off some great one-liners. I’m still disappointed that it wasn’t Carnahan who directed this, but in the end it worked out really good. (07/24/2022)