@jordyep While I think it's better than you rated it, I do agree that they missed some key elements of why Uncharted could potentially be such a great option to adapt to a movie. I think something that could have considerably elevated the movie would be bringing back Henry Jackson from Uncharted 4 to score it. I think a huge part of why Uncharted feels cinematic is because of the music, but yeah the cinematography and grading would need some improvement too. They should have treated this like the masterpiece it was capable of being. It seems like they were probably afraid of it bombing, so they didn't want to go all out like Assassin's Creed did on budget. I can understand that, but you don't necessarily need a huge budget to make it look like quality cinema.
@morphinapg Assassins Creed’s budget was only 5 million dollars higher than this. And yes, things can look cinematic without having a huge budget, but that requires a crew that really know what they’re doing. Not Ruben Fleischer and Avi Arad.
Review by JordyVIP 8BlockedParent2022-02-11T19:51:16Z— updated 2022-02-21T08:32:26Z
Look, I'm very much in favor of giving directors the creative freedom to put their own spin on whatever they're adapting.
In fact, I think it's quite shallow and close-minded to judge an adaptation against its source material, pretending as if that's meant to be some holy grail of perfection.
That being said: the whole appeal of the Uncharted games in the first place is that they feel like a mix of Indiana Jones and Mission Impossible, with this sassy, horny, shit-talking protagonist at the center of it.
This movie captures neither of those aspects, and replaces them with basic movie tropes.
It doesn't feel like the aforementioned franchises. Instead, it looks and feels like your generic, throwaway action movie that usually stars The Rock (e.g.Rampage, Red Notice, Skyscraper).
Tom Holland plays Spider-man with attitude. He's not playing (a younger version of) Nathan Drake.
Mark Wahlberg plays Mark Wahlberg.
Like, why was this project treated like a tax write-off?
It has everything a Hollywood executive could want: the source material is cinematic, action packed, fun, and best of all: it has a built in audience.
This could've easily been the next big summer franchise if this was given a proper treatment. It should be much easier to get this right than other videogame based adaptations.
So why is Avi Arad producing this? Why is Ruben Fleischer directing this? Why is this script burning through four games of material? Why is the dialogue so clunky and unfunny? Why is the casting so lame? Why does it look like plastic, when the cinematographer of this thing shot Last Night in Soho and Oldboy?
Fuck.
3.5/10