Uncharted

Taas yksi samanlainen toimintahömppä, jossa on älyvapaa käsikirjoitus, liikaa CGI:tä, jossa fysiikan lait eivät päde ja näyttelijänsuoritukset ovat luokkaa plääh (vaikka eturivin näyttelijöitä ovatkin). Mieli tekisi mollata myös Wahlbergia – tuntuu kuin hän alkaisi muistuttaa Jason Stathamia. Näyttelijöistä kiinnostavin oli Banderas, mutta hän ei saanut juuri lainkaan tilaa. Musiikista tuli mieleen kohtaus elokuvasta Forgetting Sarah Marshall, jossa Segel tekee tuntikausia taustaääniä televisiosarjoihin. Elokuva ärsytti jo 20 minuutin jälkeen ja yhdeltä tähdeltä sen pelasti osuus Barcelonassa, joka on jotenkuten katsottava… Kaikesta paistaa rutiini. Tälle ei luultavasti ole luvassa jatkoa… ja jos onkin niin ei kiinnosta. (30.06.2023)

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. (28.04.2022)

So it looks like we'll have to wait for another really good movie based on a game, because Uncharted didn't succeed as much as fans of the source material would have liked. And probably not even adventure movie fans. Making it a prequel turned out to be a smart move, the makers can tell their own story and just reference the game; sometimes a lot, sometimes a little, sometimes totally, and make a good adventure movie first and foremost. But it’s not much of one. The main problem is that it all drags quite a bit, there’s little action, and at some points what happens on screen is almost embarrassing. All the attempts at Indiana Jones-like wandering through corridors, avoiding traps and solving puzzles looks so cheesy that I was reminded of the 1990s series Relic Hunter. The chemistry between Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg is also pretty dour, and that's mostly because Wahlberg is playing more of a scumbag than a likeable bastard, and Holland tries his best, but the flat and predictable script doesn't give him much of a chance to make Nathan Drake a real likeable guy to root for. Fortunately, Uncharted climbs from below average as the runtime progresses, and the finale on the boats is already a lot of good action fun. And it was because of it that I left the cinema feeling actually satisfied. Unfortunately, as soon as I started thinking about the rest of it, the enthusiasm went way down again. A good finish is important, but Uncharted has so many unfinished or uninteresting elements that it makes up for an average adventure at best. (09.02.2022)

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. (27.04.2022)

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. (13.02.2022)