Most have been the movies that have tried to adapt video games and have failed. Of course with a few exceptions, like Sonic or Detective Pikachu, not because they are any good but rather because they give to what people would expect from that IP.
And over Sonic or Pikachu, I think Uncharted delivers on it better than them, it's fun cast and crystal clear goals to achieve are pretty well implemented, plus the chemistry of both titular characters is almost palpable, but almost. It does fail at certain times, and it feels like it takes too long for characters to make up their minds about what or who they want to be.
Tom Holland's Nathan Drake is a cartoon character, and while they are honest displays of emotion they don't match the one of the games. I think one of the main problems in the movie in relation to the game is Tom's persona doesn't match Drake. But that is understandable due to the fact that this is rather an origin story than an actual game-based Uncharted story, and that is very clear right from the get go in the orphanage scene, homaging Uncharted IV.
I won't lie and say that I have played lord of the games, but for what I've played, you can feel the tonal differences.
The villain is also very poorly constructed, I'd have rather they kept Antonio Bandera's character for one main reason, he has screen prescience, why? Because he in Antonio Banderas!
The villain they replace it to who her name I forget, is incredibly bland and with lack of proposition, lacks that I haven't felt so great ever in a movie theater. She is not plain evil, she is just...nothing, at all. She is one of the least intimidating villains I have seen.
However it has surprising good interpretations, from Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland, with the give material constraints.
There are some also lacks if complete sense, for example when Tom and Ali are in the red car, that Tom falls on a bunch of stuff with great speed and height and does not brake any bones I pass it, but when he lands on the car he stands in it, without holding to it and does not fly off. All the previous stuff were unlikely but possible, but they were still achievable and respected certain rules, like having to hold themselves not to fall, because GRAVITY, but in that moment is like Tom forgot he is not playing Spider-Man, but the sequence is still well made and it is a lot of fun besides it.
Uncharted has a charming vibe that will keep viewers from getting bored at all times, it has more similarities to Shang-Chi, than to the games but it pays respects to it with its great set and action pieces. Characters are fun to see and they provide with a great movie but with great lack of porpoise as to why it exists or does stuff, but it does not fail in the attempt to bring something fun that does not treat the viewers like they should know all the characters and stories they have been through. 7/10.
And over Sonic or Pikachu, I think Uncharted delivers on it better than them, it's fun cast and crystal clear goals to achieve are pretty well implemented, plus the chemistry of both titular characters is almost palpable, but almost. It does fail at certain times, and it feels like it takes too long for characters to make up their minds about what or who they want to be.
Tom Holland's Nathan Drake is a cartoon character, and while they are honest displays of emotion they don't match the one of the games. I think one of the main problems in the movie in relation to the game is Tom's persona doesn't match Drake. But that is understandable due to the fact that this is rather an origin story than an actual game-based Uncharted story, and that is very clear right from the get go in the orphanage scene, homaging Uncharted IV.
I won't lie and say that I have played lord of the games, but for what I've played, you can feel the tonal differences.
The villain is also very poorly constructed, I'd have rather they kept Antonio Bandera's character for one main reason, he has screen prescience, why? Because he in Antonio Banderas!
The villain they replace it to who her name I forget, is incredibly bland and with lack of proposition, lacks that I haven't felt so great ever in a movie theater. She is not plain evil, she is just...nothing, at all. She is one of the least intimidating villains I have seen.
However it has surprising good interpretations, from Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland, with the give material constraints.
There are some also lacks if complete sense, for example when Tom and Ali are in the red car, that Tom falls on a bunch of stuff with great speed and height and does not brake any bones I pass it, but when he lands on the car he stands in it, without holding to it and does not fly off. All the previous stuff were unlikely but possible, but they were still achievable and respected certain rules, like having to hold themselves not to fall, because GRAVITY, but in that moment is like Tom forgot he is not playing Spider-Man, but the sequence is still well made and it is a lot of fun besides it.
Uncharted has a charming vibe that will keep viewers from getting bored at all times, it has more similarities to Shang-Chi, than to the games but it pays respects to it with its great set and action pieces. Characters are fun to see and they provide with a great movie but with great lack of porpoise as to why it exists or does stuff, but it does not fail in the attempt to bring something fun that does not treat the viewers like they should know all the characters and stories they have been through. 7/10.
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