Games Inbox: Uncharted movie review, Elden Ring pre-order, and Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
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Infinite copies So, I’ve just come back from seeing the Uncharted movie and… it was okay, just. The first thing I would say is that I don’t understand why anyone would say that fans of the game would like it, as I think they’ll be the least satisfied with it. But I guess that’s just the sort of thing film reviewers say when they don’t know the source material.
Apart from their names, Nate and Sully have absolutely nothing in common with the game characters. Tom Holland is just playing the role as Peter Parker and Mark Wahlberg seems visibly angry to even be in the movie. The actress playing Chloe is probably the best in the cast, but the villain is a complete non-event and everything else is just so bland and generic.
It’s basically exactly the problem you would always assume Uncharted would have: the original game was already copying Tomb Raider, which was copying Indiana Jones, so when you make a movie of it you’ve got a copy of a copy of a copy.
It’s worse than that really though because there’s very little action in the first half of the film and apart from the stupid bit with the pirate ships, that’s in all the trailers, the only other big action set piece (which they also show most of in the trailers) is the cargo plane sequence from Uncharted 3, which… was copied from the James Bond film The Living Daylights (except stupider and with no real stunts).
It’s not even as if the movie is actively bad, it’s just bland, generic, and with a very boring script. I can’t see it doing well at all and the only reason I’ve seen
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