Review of Uncharted (2022) by Compi24 — 18 Feb 2022
One of the more difficult movies I've had to review in the past few years. Not even for the reasons you might think. Currently, I'm finding it hard to compartmentalize the "Uncharted fan" and "garden-variety filmgoer" personas upstairs.
Both have slightly different opinions on this thing. The "Uncharted" fan in me finds this thing vacuous, basic and borderline heretical. The movie lover in me finds it decent at best, with a couple engaging set pieces and a generally straightforward, if formulaic, narrative.
I don't want to give this thing a pass, but I'm also trying to mitigate the amount of fanboy sweatiness emitted by yours truly. I guess, if we were to synthesize these two mindsets, I'd say I'm simply disappointed.
This could have been the start of something great, but yet again, we have to endure talk about how hard it is to adapt video games to film. Perhaps the first mistake was adapting a video game that already feels so much like a movie into a movie.
In any event, there's really nothing behind the eyes here and the eyes aren't even really all that great to look at either.
This review of Uncharted (2022) was written by Compi24 on 18 February 2022.
Uncharted has generally received positive reviews.
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