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elliott back again with a brand new movie review and today we're talking about a video game movie
a video game franchise that your boy holds near and dear to his heart we're talking about its live
action debut on the big screen the uncharted movie which i got a chance to check out in
theaters and i'm really excited to let you all know what i thought about this film and let you
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the film let's talk about it in the comments your pros your cons favorite character favorite
action moment what are some things that didn't work for you all and let's also talk about this
video game movies which is your favorite and also video games turn into tv show what is your
favorite let's talk about it in the comments below so i just want to address this right now
your boy loves uncharted it is my favorite video game franchise of all time i played all four of
the main narrative uh video games and i love them through and through nathan drake's incredible the
supporting characters the action the adventures the mystery the puzzles it's all fantastic it is
the goat of a video game franchises for me right but i i'll say this i'm saying on that
to say i've learned a long time ago to leave my fandom leave my baggage of video games turn to
movies or tv shows you know comic books turn to movies tv shows books graphic novels leave all
that stuff at the front door elliott and just try to go into this movie try to go into the tv show
to see what they're trying to give you right and not always comparing it to what came before and
it is some you know some merit to say hey they didn't do any respect to what i've known but
at the same time this isn't you know the video game literally copied and pasted so this isn't
the comic book just put it on a in a film format i've learned to kind of leave all this stuff at
the back door so i say all that to say this review i'm gonna try to do my best to not compare this
film solely based on my fandom of the video game and not you know whether it's positive
or negative so i say that to say let's get into this review let's start off with my positives and
i want to start off talking about the leading man himself tom holland who i'm a fan i and now i will
say this there are moments where i did feel like okay that's a little peter parker of uh
nathan drake that's a little spiderman of nathan drake which you know it is a good and a bad it's
a double-edged sword when you play such an iconic character you sometimes can some people can only
see that person in the role for me personally i see tom holland as an actor i think of his
younger days and impossible i think of him as billy elliott i think of him a couple years ago
in uh the devil all time he's a really great actor and i think he's a fantastic leading man he's had
some stinkers in his career i think of cherry i thought he was great in it not the best film
i think of chaos walking not a great film but i think that him as a leading man and it proves so
much so at least for me in this film he's great as nathan drake now again try not to compare
to the video game as much as possible but i will say as far as nathan drake that i know
he doesn't really hit all those personality beats that i've come to love with anything
drake but he's doing his own thing again you got to remember this is young nathan drake and we've
gotten that in the video game you know seeing a little bit of his past and you get a little bit
of that in this film but i like what the film has given us nathan drake again someone that has had
some family issues at a young age which shout out to my outer banks fans out there there is a
cast member from that show in this film without giving so much weight i really enjoyed their
chemistry and kind of that brotherhood and their brothership that they've experienced but also
nathan drake as a young man trying to figure out who he is and seeing how he got into this
adventure you know exploring type of uh lifestyle and he's someone that believes and i love that
he's someone and this kind of takes the essence from nathan drake finding things that are lost
and i really kind of enjoyed that narrative and i thought tom holland was great as a leading man
and if the opportunities given to him to continue this role i'll uh sequels or maybe even a tv show
i'm here for because i thought he was great as this version nathan drake which also brings me to
sophia ali i've seen her only one time and in the film i saw her in i try to forget that movie as
often as i can this truth or dare movie i did not like that film but putting that movie aside
sophia ali is great she plays chloe and i will say as far as video game knowledge she was probably
the most accurate from knowing her character and loving her character video game and seeing her in
a big screen she was fantastic as the character i know from the game but she was also just great as
a character you know we get some backstory from her she's not in the film as much as i wanted her
to be in it she's mostly kind of highlighted in the second half of the movie and she does make her
appearance in the third act but she's really not that involved in the third act and without giving
so much weight but again sophia ali is fantastic and and her chemistry with tom holla was great and
i will say as far as the other performances and i'll get more in depth with some of my criticisms
with the performances and how they were written but i thought everyone brought their a game but
the standouts again being tom holland and sophia ali and i will go into other things that stand out
to me when i go into an action adventure film i want to be on the edge of my seat and have a good
time with the action and be entertaining i will say the f word fun i had fun with the action in
this film you know the two sequences that come to mind one you all can remember and seen from
the trailer that airplane sequence is pretty cool again you only get a snippet of it in a trailer
but when you see it kind of fleshed out in the film especially how they open the movie and how
it ties back into that sequence i had a lot of fun with that moment and also kind of a moment
from the video games kind of remix a little bit but there is a and i won't say where it is and
how it all plays out but i'll just say helicopters and boats really had a fun time with that was very
really kind of brought me back to my uncharted video game playing days but also just as an action
movie it was a pretty cool action set piece and i will say as far as the budget goes i want to
say this was budgeted at 120 mil they did a pretty good job there were some moments where the cgi the
vfx weren't all that crisp and all that great but for the most part the action set pieces the scope
and the scale felt like an action adventure film and i really had a fun time with those moments
and and another thing i want to bring up as far as a positive goes i will say as far as like the
pacing and kind of how the film kind of all comes together i i never found myself to be bored with
the movie which i always find to be a good thing when i go see an action adventure film so those
are my main positives jump into my criticisms here there are certain directors in hollywood
uh ruben fleischer is the director of this movie when you you just want to make a safe you know
just a straight-up film of whatever that genre is i think he is that type of director and i mean
that pretty negatively i think reuben fleischer is a one-trick pony i think he is his one film that i
really love his which is 2009 zombieland i think that was a fluke because every other movie i've
seen of his whether it be the sequel to zombieland whether it be venom uh what was that one movie
with ryan uh gosling a gangster squad oh my gosh he's not my favorite director and i think that
a lot of my criticisms fall into his he doesn't have much of a personality like again when i
think of zombie i think that's more so with the deadpool writers i think they put a lot of their
personality in that film more so than direction i don't think reuben fleischer has a distinct style
and i think a film like this which is this high budgeted action adventure mystery solving type of
film globe trotting type of film he just doesn't have that eye for me that really pops and brings a
lot of that flair and substance at the same time he didn't really bring that to me in this film
which is unfortunate because i think this film knowing some of the directors that were circled
to direct this whether it be sean levy or travis knight and some other great fantastic directors i
think reuben fleischer was unfortunately i know a lot of people gonna bring up mark wahlberg being
miss cass i think ruben was you know mishired in the direction chair which brings me to the other
thing that stood out to me is the writing man this was a very even though i had fun with the
action moments i had fun with nathan drake there were a lot of generic just kind of like again
lack of personality lack of splunk in the writing department and i think the two characters that
kind of stand out are really three that kind of were a detriment to the writing mark wahlberg i'm
a big fan of this he's an oscar academy nominated actor he might even want to oscar that if i'm not
mistaken but i think he's a pretty great actor and a lot of people will say this is marky mark
me and mark and mark which sometimes is fine you know i like mark wahlberg but i think his
character is sully and again putting my video game knowledge aside he's not sully i will say
that for my video game fans out there he is not a good example of taking the character from the
video game and adapting to the big screen but this version of sully i think mark brings a lot of his
personality to the role because i think the thing that he was given on script just wasn't all that
interesting we really don't get that much from sally in regards to his motives how he came to
be it's just pretty generic i think mark wahlberg out of all the cast had to kind of bring something
to the role more so than was given to him on the page and then also speaks to a couple other actors
antonio banderas fantastic actor he's just a stereotypical villain i think of tati gabrielle
a fantastic young up and coming actress he's a great personality has a lot of charm and charisma
wasn't given that much in her role she's the secondary villain she's just as generic as
antonio banderas so i think again the writing and direction are the detriment to this film
and then this is just a nick pick before i give you all my overall thoughts on my score
i understand this movie is pg-13 and even the video games aren't like super graphic dark or
whatever the case may be but there is a scene in this film and i won't say where and who it
involves but someone gets their throat slit i urge hollywood producers and directors if you're gonna
not show what it would look like when someone gets to throw slip with that type of weapon
don't zoom in and linger on the body because i'll just say it it kind of took me out like really
guys flip them over because it looked very like pg the way they handled that scene it's a very small
nitpick and there's some other nitpicks i can bring up but that one just kind of stood out like
a sore thumb but those are my main criticisms the writing and the direction just were kind of basic
generic and kind of lack personality so before i give you my overall score and if you should watch
this film make sure if you haven't already to like share comment below and of course subscribe
to the channel if you haven't already overall as a film goes i had fun with the action the adventure
the puzzles weren't as elaborate as i was hoping they could be but i still had a fun time on this
adventure with these characters standouts being tom holland and sophia ali i thought everyone else
did the best in their role but unfortunately my biggest issue with this film is it lacks direction
it doesn't have that much of an interesting or entertaining or you know uh creative juices in the
writing department but overall as a film goes give it a shot i'm gonna give it a three out of five as
a video game i will not neglect the video game fans out there because i am a video game fan i
love this video game franchise it's my favorite of all time don't go into this film trying to compare
to the video game because i think if you do that you're going to end up extremely disappointed so
try to take my advice i know it's a lot easier said than done but try to go in this film and
enjoy it for what it is so with that being said yet again i'm gonna give uncharted a three out
of five i will let you all know there are two post credit scenes so don't leave the movie theater and
both of post credit scenes are pretty interesting which brings me to the next point if they are to
do a sequel it all depends on the finances right if the film could do pretty good financially
i would be down for a sequel because i see the potential in a lot of the cast and a lot of
the potentials of a story i just urge sony to look at another director in a different
writing crew and i think you can have something pretty special in your hands so hey that's my
thoughts on uncharted three out of five give it a watch and when you do let me know your pros
your cons favorite moments least favorite moments do you want to see more from this franchise and
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