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I wanted to see this film after finding out Nicholas Hamilton was in a lead role. I wanted to see if he could take on a serious role and am happy to say his performance was solid.

These types of films usually are not my cup of tea (I typically stick to horror). That being said, the movie was pretty good! The acting was spot on and the actors (particularly Hamilton and Jared Harris) made the characters grounded and believable. The character growth felt nice and realistic enough, even if Stan seemed a bit like a Mary Sue. Given the director's history with the actual Stan, I get why the character was personified without flaws, but it did become noticeable about halfway through.

I would give the film a higher rating, but that money grab tacked onto the end of the film irked me the wrong way. "Use the QR code to buy your loved one a ticket." No. I'm not gonna do that. Should've been left at the end of the trailer or as a promotional thing - not at the LITERAL END OF THE MOVIE. Here I am, tears streaming down my face, then that commercial happened and they dried up like the Sahara.

By a technical standpoint, the movie's not bad. It has some good camera work, the sound mixing was on point, the acting - for the most part - wasn't bad.

When the movie started, all of the characters were deplorable. As it continued, the characters only got worse. With the exception of the Snack character, all you want is to see the other characters killed. I only kept watching just to see everyone else get killed off. The worst characters were Bran (from the get-go, you want him dead), Ayla (no redeeming factors) and Scribble (just a general horrible person).

Hell, the monster (Crockamoley) was sympathetic. You wanted to see it off the entire cast - you just waited for it.

I felt like this film had potential. If it focused on the Jeni character being bullied due to her anxiety and how Snack was someone to befriend her while trying to distance himself from his "friends," it could have worked. Honestly, this film fails because its focus is on the wrong people.

Uncharted was...all right.

It would've been better if they would have either made up a unique storyline or just adapted one of the games directly. Instead, we got a hodgepodge of every Uncharted game shoved into one film. It opens with 3, then 4, then goes to 2, then 1, then back to 4 - like JUST PICK ONE. I still recommend it, but mainly to people who haven't played the games.

There were characters that were clearly based off of in-game characters. Like Braddock was obviously supposed to be Nadine, Moncada was Rafe - but this is an "origin story," so it wasn't Rafe and Nadine. Despite so many changes being made that they could have made them Rafe and Nadine and nothing would have changed.

Tom Holland was okay as a young Nate, but a little too wide-eyed innocent. I could not buy Mark Wahlberg as Sully. He was so one-note throughout the entire film, except one scene at the end. That was a major miscast. Sully can be selfish, but he cares about people close to him. Given who Sully knew in the film, he should not have been treating Nate like he did.

Again, it's a game to film adaptation. If you don't play the games, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

I still feel that National Treasure with Nicholas Cage is a better Uncharted film than Uncharted 2022.