What's supposed to be a man with inner conflicts, a dark past and a father figure to Drake ends up being a cardboard cut out of this character that's greedy for wealth in the beginning but learns that people are harder to earn. Ironically, Wahlberg was supposed to play Drake in the earlier drafts of this film which had been in development hell for years and his performance as Sully feels like he's not happy about playing the second fiddle. Not a popcorn was dropped, not a drop of cold coffee was spilt and not a clap could be heard! A sequence that involves Drake jumping between cargo crates as they are getting thrown out from a flying plane - a shot that was widely used in promotions - falls flat because it's literally the first shot in the film and the audience know that all the luck in the world will favour our hero. Because of this, the stakes aren't high and a sense of risk that our duo are battling never hits us the way it should. Even then, Uncharted fails to hit the mark thanks to a weak story, convenient and predictable twists and one-dimensional secondary characters. It might sound like a tried and tested formula - films like Indiana Jones, games like Tomb Raider have made this a sure-shot plot and a never-ending list of films, including the recent Red Notice, have prospered from. After the usual apprehension followed by the usual nod, the duo embarks on an adventure that's laced with mysteries, traps, baddies, back-stabbers and of course, a lot of gold. Cut to the present, he's a small-time thief working as a bartender to whom Victor 'Sully' Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) offers an offer that he can't refuse. While the Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg-starrer tries its best to recreate that, what we are left with is a CG powered trip that looks the part but fails miserably in every other department.ĭrake (Tom Holland) has a sad backstory involving an older brother going MIA.
We get to witness the best of what the "uncharted" world has to offer and on the way, also watch Drake in several risky action blocks that he always have a nifty way of getting out of. Its protagonist Nathan Drake is a globe-trotting swashbuckler who has taken gamers on a virtual journey through different terrains across the globe. Game lovers know the contribution of the Uncharted game series to the rise in the standards of single-player video games for fifteen years.
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