Tom Holland has been doing some serious work with his personal trainer for his role as Nathan Drake, a tough kid with serious abs and a talent for parkour that looks like it is only partly faked with a stunt double. He is now making a few bucks as a cocktail waiter but he’s also a pickpocket, ripping off rich people in the bar – and dreaming of finding Magellan’s loot, which his adored older brother once told him about before mysteriously going missing.

One of the bigger issues with Uncharted is that even though this is technically a novice Nate, he can still best any henchman you throw at him and survive implausible situations like the cargo-plane sequence from Uncharted 3. These movies will always require some suspension of disbelief, but this stretches it too far where a more seasoned Nate wouldn’t.

It also doesn’t really help matters that the movie has been released with No Way Home so fresh in the mind. The Nate from the games is sarcastic and deadpan, but here, he comes across as quippy. It takes some adjustment to make you clock that you’re watching Nate and not Peter Parker, as Holland doesn’t quite nail the Nate mannerisms we expect.

Holland is adept at the stunts and feels more at home when Nate is put in increasingly crazy situations. Yet even though the movie nods to the game (the gun holster gets an origin story, for instance), you never really feel that you’re watching Nathan Drake. It’s not helped by the fact he shares zero chemistry with Mark Wahlberg’s flat take on Sully, a critical part of the games.

It all adds to the sense that you could be watching any old adventure movie rather than an Uncharted adaptation. The games were inspired by the likes of Indiana Jones, so converting that inspiration back into a movie ends up looking derivative. While the script is aware of its influences, any nods to it just highlight the better movie you could be watching.

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Sic Parvis Magna, the new motto of a generation?

The story of the Uncharted movie does not directly adapt the events of either game . It uses some sequences, situations and places, mainly from the third and fourth installments, to tell us a story of origins different from the one we could see on our consoles; specifically, we will see how Nathan and Sully meet, while facing their first mission together following in the wake of Sam, the brother of our protagonist. Here we find what I consider to be one of the main triumphs of Movie : it is able to achieve a good adaptation by mixing many elements of the franchise’s mythology, altering key events, but still giving a product that is faithful to the brand and its characters.

Synopsis of the full movie “Uncharted”
‘Uncharted’ promises to be one of the most ambitious adaptations of a video game that Hollywood has made to date. The saga created by Naughty Dog has millions of followers around the world and now Sony wants to do it justice with a movie directed by Ruben Fleischer with a cast led by Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg and Antonio Banderas.

The adventure movie finished movieing this past October after visiting various locations in Germany and Spain and is on its way to being one of the most anticipated movie releases to arrive in 2022.

Movie begins during the youth of Sam and Nathan, at which point they must separate after several failed robbery attempts. Sam must run away from the foster home where they live, but not before leaving Nathan his most precious possession: an ancient ring, a direct inheritance from Sir Francis Drake, one of the most famous pirates and explorers of all time. The inscription that can be read on it, Sic Parvis Magna (“greatness is born from small beginnings”), is the motto that will guide Nathan’s life… although 15 years after this separation from the brothers, we find him working as a waiter in a London bar, living in a dark flat and taking advantage of the ingenuity of his customers to commit petty theft. His skill does not go unnoticed by Sully, a mysterious stranger who offers him the heist of their lives: discover the lost treasure of Ferdinand Magellan. As if that were not enough, Sully claims to know Sam, Nathan’s long-lost brother, who is the one who started this adventure. Hoping to find him at the end of the road, our protagonist embarks with Sully (and maybe some other character…) on an adventure as dangerous as it is spectacular. Crossing the path of our anti-heroes will be Mr. Moncada, a cold and evil millionaire played by Antonio Banderas, and Braddock, his lethal henchman; they all seek the same treasure, and will do whatever it takes to get it. Crossing the path of our anti-heroes will be Mr. Moncada, a cold and evil millionaire played by Antonio Banderas, and Braddock, his deadly henchman; they all seek the same treasure, and will do whatever it takes to get it. Crossing the path of our anti-heroes will be Mr. Moncada, a cold and evil millionaire played by Antonio Banderas, and Braddock, his deadly henchman; they all seek the same treasure, and will do whatever it takes to get it.

It is not easy to make a good adaptation of a video game as successful as Uncharted, but we must admit that it is an IP with more facilities than others, since its origin lies in adventure movies; specifically, he took a lot of inspiration from the Indiana Jones character . Uncharted was born as the Indiana Jones of video games, and I have no doubt that this movie can mean for new generations what the legendary character of Harrison Ford does for many of us .