Uncharted Movierulz: The film based on the adventure of Nathan Drake that will have the face of the Spider-Man SONY / Marvel arrives in theaters.

The Uncharted video game has been delighting Naughty Dog and Sony PlayStation since 2007, but it took four main chapters and two spin-offs (and perhaps the short film made in 2018 by a fan) to push Hollywood to unlock the project. by Avi Arad back in 2008. That of the film adaptation of one of the most popular and beloved videogame sagas of recent years, which finally arrives in cinemas, distributed by Warner Bros. from February 18, 2022.

Certainly thanks to the presence of the big names involved, from Mark Wahlberg to Antonio Banderas. And the good disposition of the many fans of the franchise, not to mention the fans of the action-adventure genre, never out of fashion. And when it is the director Ruben Fleischer himself and the protagonist Tom Holland who cite – explicitly and repeatedly – the old Indiana Jones as the main reference of their creation, expectations will inevitably arise.

Uncharted – more Tin Tin than Indiana Jones

A mistake that many make, more and more often, even if distorted it would be better to talk more about the attempt to attract a specific audience, even if inhomogeneous, such as that of the old films by Steven Spielberg and the followers of the digital Nathan Drake. 

That this time they will only be able to observe – without intervening – their hero in the hunt for the “greatest treasure ever found” from one part of the world to the other, in pursuit of all kinds of clues that could lead him and his partner Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Wahlberg) to Nathan’s long-missing brother.

A simple story, built to fit the box office and complicated more by the obstacles that continue to distance the goal and make the research more dynamic and spectacular: this is the synthesis of what it would be unfair to judge as something other than oneself. 

Like something other than a video game, carried on without any tension by two-dimensional characters moved by elementary stimuli, even less characterized than those to which the original developers have built a background over the years. More similar – just to stay in the Spielbergian context – to Tin Tin (but that film was something else!) Then to the professorial Indy.

The adventure is only just beginning

A floured Latin, a patina of Californian antiquity, artifacts and merchandising books, difficult family background, and a generic sense of loneliness to empathize with and that’s it. For two hours of pure entertainment, perhaps a little superficial, but in which aficionados can devote themselves to the search for easter eggs and cameos in the various scenes (the director himself has anticipated a couple of them) or admire the splendid settings recreated starting from the Spanish locations of Lloret de Mar, Barcelona, and Valencia.

Especially in the second part, when Uncharted photography manages to take advantage of long shots and open spaces, after the long underground search in which one ends up suffering more from the absence of verisimilitude typical of events so dependent on the more classic suspension of disbelief. 

That it will be good to keep this in the final pyrotechnic, which after a predictable conclusion leaves us with the implicit announcement of an inevitable sequel. Never as in this case, after all, and despite everything (including the very concept of a treasure hunt), it is not the goal that is important, but the journey. As long as you enjoy it.