It’s a movie that subtly communicates one of the oldest adages of time: The love of money, or in this case, gold, is the root of all evil. You might have to search a little to see it, but “Uncharted” isn’t just paying homage to an action-packed video game quest by making Holland do dozens of difficult stunts. Flying off into the sunset in a stolen helicopter at the conclusion of the film after conveniently getting rid of every bad guy? Check.Ī Surprising Moral Message Sets ‘Uncharted’ Apart Cheesy lines about how friendship and a “heart of gold” are more important than physical treasure? Check.
A pretty young woman who earns the trust of our love-dazed protagonist before backstabbing him? Check.ĭaring stunts and devastating injuries that would put a normal adult human in the hospital for weeks but miraculously leave characters unscathed? Check. An evil pack of villains run by the head of a rich family with cool foreign accents? Check. A tragic backstory that leaves the main character orphaned? Check. “Uncharted” checks all of the overused boxes featured in most revered action and adventure movies.
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In Spain, the trio rushes through a series of booby traps with Moncada’s gang right on their heels, only to discover the loot they desire lies in the Phillippines, where Drake and his shady partners are nearly killed in hand to hand combat and forced into adrenaline-fueled, unrealistic chases across rooftops and mid-air plane cargo. After stealing Magellan’s golden cross from the rich Moncada family’s goons in a joint heist at an antique auction in New York City, Drake and Sully meet up with fellow treasure hunter Chloe Frazer, who possesses the other cross required to recover the explorers’ loot in Barcelona. The movie’s plot picks up when a young adult Drake ditches his life as a bartender who moonlights as a thief to join his brother’s cocky treasure hunting buddy Victor “Sully” Sullivan, played by Wahlberg, on a quest to find the lost fortune of the world explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Despite promising to find his way back to his brother, Sam disappears and is never seen again (that is, until the end of the film, when he makes a small cameo in a cell that hints at an “Uncharted” sequel). Their aspirations to explore the world together are cut short when Sam, facing criminal consequences for repeatedly breaking into the museum, flees and leaves Drake behind. The movie begins with Drake dramatically falling out of a plane over the ocean but quickly segues into a flashback scene in a closed museum where a young Drake and his older brother Sam fondly gaze at an ancient world map. In the film, protagonist Nathan Drake, played by Holland, uses his older brother’s mysterious international postcards as his guide. “Uncharted” is far from the shipwreck Rotten Tomatoes and critics said it would be, even though the film’s international, danger-ridden quest to recover the long-lost treasure of a 16th-century explorer and his crew is not necessarily a new or innovative plot.
After two weekends at the box office, however, the movie seems to have survived what some have dubbed “Hollywood’s video game curse” and raked in more than $225 million worldwide. Skeptics were afraid that the long-awaited movie might flop as other gaming adaptations have. Despite “Uncharted’s” star-studded cast featuring Mark Wahlberg and up-and-coming Tom Holland, fans of the popular video game that served as the film’s inspiration received “Uncharted” into theaters in February with great hesitancy.
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