Uncharted's Shock Ending, Secret Characters & Sequel Setup
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Uncharted!
After a long, storied development story across multiple years, Tom Holland's Uncharted movie is here, but what does it all mean? The globe-trotting action-adventure caper sees Holland's Nathan Drake team up with a curiously mustache-less Sully (Mark Wahlberg) to find his brother, the lost Magellan treasure, and his own identity along the way. Throw in some petty theft (a victimless crime when the mark is a spoiled brat in this universe, apparently), a missing brother, and a horde of obsessive treasure hunters, and it's a recipe for intrigue. But is there subtext and symbolism in there?
The question for Uncharted was initially whether it would ever come out, but the Playstation-backed movie managed to amass a significant team of talent and made up for its delays by landing just as Tom Holland's post-No Way Home star went white hot. It's a caper, largely uninterested in some of the more pervasive tropes of modern blockbuster cinema — like deconstructing villains, and endless thematic gloom — to make something that lands somewhere between The Goonies and The Da Vinci Code. You have to admire the broad strokes that make it a family-appropriate experience at the same time as actually nailing some of what makes the Uncharted games what they are.
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Even for a relatively straightforward story, Uncharted does have depth, exploring issues as weighty as greed and loyalty in an accessible, entertaining package that avoids all cynicism. Tom Holland's new starring vehicle is packed with Uncharted Easter eggs, has some incredibly impressive action set-pieces, and has the confidence to set up a future beyond the end
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