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Uncharted - Movie Review

 

Games to Movies

With Disney/Marvel the primary source of successful comics to movies company, it is not surprising that other studios are leveraging games to movies. While not a new concept, live action movies based on games have been around since the 90s. Love it or hate it, Super Mario Bros started it all. A steady stream of movies based on games has been going on since then with only a few years with no movie released.

Games are owned by several companies with notable names like Capcom, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Sega, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony to name a few. The most popular movie series in this genre being Resident Evil which release six movies with Milla Jovovich and a reboot of the series staring Kaya Scodelario as the new lead. I know more would say that Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft was much more successful but it only had two movies before an attempted reboot in 2018.

Review

Uncharted is a video game series produced for the PlayStation systems (a Sony company). Sony who also produces the SpiderMan related movies owns PlayStation. Any surprise they were able to get Tom Holland to play the lead Nathan Drake. The games have a great story arc throughout the series. Adapting it to a movie should be straight forward since the source material was already story based.

Alas like all good things, someone needed to put their own spin on it. So for those gamer fans expecting a faithful adaption of the series who could already see from the casting of Mark Wahlberg as Victor "Sully" Sullivan, this was not going to be the case. There are several nods to the game franchise including a cameo I will not spoil but who had one of the best dialogs in the movie. This is to be expected as the original game play took 8 hours to complete. It would be hard to have a movie franchise were you would have to have 2-3 movies per game.

Although not a faithful adaption of the games, it did have some of the essence of the games in it. Overall, it was a good movie. Watching the movie, you can see why they cast Tom for the lead roll. Jury is still out on Mark's casting. If the movie was cast even 10 years ago, the original voice cast would have been preferred as the Uncharted games uses a lot of stop motion of the voice actors for the cut scenes and game play. Unfortunately, it has been 15 years since the first Uncharted was released. 

Rating

I would give this a HD rating. If you like action and adventure, this is a movie to put on at least your watch list. I will probably be a sucker and get this movie when it comes out on sale for less than $13 but many movies definitely go on sale for $10 a few months after their digital release. The latest Venom movie skipped the $13 initial sale price and was on sale for the first time at $10. This is another Sony movie so my hopes are high this one will be on sale for $10 shortly after it is released digitally.

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