You've seen some combination of this movie before, but even genre masterpieces are built from their influences, so being derivative is not a fatal flaw as long as the filmmakers get the essentials of storytelling and action cinema right, and they do here. That's what Uncharted gets the most right, that sense of fun the games have built into their core, while keeping things moving smoothly with colorful characters and large-scale action. The visuals are eye-grabbing and the action sequences are inventive and exciting. The banter is fun between Holland and Wahlberg, the action set pieces are brisk, and the third act in particularly is just a showstopper of big action bravado. It's a race against time and while it doesn't reinvent the action-adventure wheel, Uncharted is a perfectly diverting piece of entertainment. He's a brainy bartender who is looking for some hidden Magellan treasure, and maybe his missing older brother too, and is aided by Victor "Sully" Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg), an Army vet with a shared goal of retrieving the gold before his rival, wealthy industrialist Santiago (Antonio Banderas). The game was in development for so long that the producers have finally ditched Nathan Fillion, the celebrity doppelganger in look and attitude of the game's swashbuckling protagonist Nathan Drake, and resorted to everyone's favorite web-slinger Tom Holland as a younger version of the hero. While playing the globe-trotting, puzzle-solving, treasure-hunting action-adventures, it feels very much like you're already in the middle of a big-budget Hollywood blockbuster. The successful Uncharted series (2007-2016) are some of the most movie-ready video games for big screen adaptation. Rating: PG-13 (Violence/Action and Language) If Nate and Sully can decipher the clues and solve one of the world's oldest mysteries, they stand to find $5 billion in treasure and perhaps even Nate's long-lost brother.but only if they can learn to work together. What starts as a heist job for the duo becomes a globe-trotting, white-knuckle race to reach the prize before the ruthless Moncada (Antonio Banderas), who believes he and his family are the rightful heirs. Street-smart thief Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) to recover a fortune lost by Ferdinand Magellan 500 years ago.
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