Uncharted

GenerationofSwine 8/2/2026 10:23:18PM 8.4

It's an adventure movie, and I am a sucker for those. Now, I've been to Barcelona, and I didn't realize it could be that clean and safe. When I was there, there were prostitutes everywhere, you could buy any vice you wanted on the corner of almost any street for dirt cheap, and one of my friends got mugged when I was talking to a couple of lost Germans at the Columbus statue. I hear it's only gotten worse, not better, but Uncharted makes it look like a nice clean tourist spot. And the bad guys look a bit too high-tech to make it feel like a proper race to find the McGuffin that you expect in movies like this... but I hear it's based on a game, and honestly I can't speak to that or the accuracy there. Anyway, once more Tom Holland proves that he can do a fantastic New York accent and he does it so well I love hearing him... and it's an adventure movie, I know I mentioned that, but I honestly love movies like these, I think we need more adventure films based around McGuffins, with back stabbing characters done as much for comedic effect as for plot, that can appeal to the whole family... and it's always fun watching Tom Holland get bounced and thrown around. But the most shocking thing is that it came out in 2022, and save for an appeal to the CCP that most people are going to miss, it's relatively politics free and just wholesome family fun. At the end of the day, it's the type of movie, the type of story, I would have loved when I was 10... and still love today

JPV852 5/9/2022 4:30:40AM 8.4

Good adventure-thriller in the vein of Tomb Raider. Visual effects for the most part were decent and liked seeing Tom Holland in a lead role other than Spider-Man (where he excels) and he's good here. Now this is coming from someone who has never played the game but I thought as video adaptations go, it was fairly entertaining though nothing exceptional. **3.5/5**

Dark Jedi 5/16/2024 3:21:17PM 8.4

This movie was pretty much what I expected or rather hoped for. It was a fun adventure/action rollercoaster plain and simple. This is one of those, rare nowadays, movies that are meant to entertain plain and simple. Two hours of adventure, action and twists barely held together by a rudimentary story and no woke rubbish or bullshit preaching. The latter is probably what rendered it a 40% rotten “critics” score on woke tomatoes while the audience gave it a 90% fresh score. As almost always a rotten score on woke tomatoes is an indication that it is a movie worthwhile watching. The story, as can be seen from the movie blurb, is a treasure hunt a la Indiana Jones. It starts off by introducing the main character, Nathan, in a few brief scenes where Nathan bungles up a heist being perpetrated by his brother after which they are involuntarily separated. Quick forward to present time and the main story takes off with Nathan being persuaded by Sullivan to embark on a hunt for an immeasurable treasure. Not exactly the newest or freshest of stories but if it works don’t fix it. Pretty much everyone in this movie is a self-centered scoundrel with little to no care for anyone except themselves. Thus the action and treasure hunting is regularly interrupted by twists and betrayals. No one will claim that this movie has an elaborate and intelligent story. It does not have to. It is just meant to hold the action together. I quite liked the main actors. Sullivan did a good job of being the blasé, self-centered scoundrel, Nathan of being the somewhat naive wannabe treasure hunter and Braddock was quite cool, and sexy (hey, I’m a guy), as the baddie. Antonio Banderas was Antonio Banderas although I was saddened by his premature exit from the hunt. Overall the action was nice although the scenes in, and out of, the airplane was the usual unrealistic Hollywood action. Although that was overshadowed with the ship carrying helicopter scenes towards the end which was taking unrealism to new levels. But I didn’t really care because it was fun silliness. The moment they started to carry those ships away I started to hope that the writer would go for the silly and obvious stunt involving black powder. Yes unrealistic but there is no denying the coolness factor. As far as I am concerned this was two hours well spent. The ending scene clearly suggested that the producers hoped to make a sequel. I would definitely watch it but with all the people lamenting the fact that someone dared to make a movie simply for entertainment without a profound (and boring) story or bullshit preaching in it that might not happen. It did make about four times its budget at the box office though so maybe.