Why The Uncharted Movie Isn’t Really An Uncharted Movie

Uncharted is one of the best video games produced in the last 15 years. Fans everywhere were ecstatic when news broke they were finally adapting Uncharted to the big screen. But what we ended up getting in the Tom Holland Mark Wahlberg feature was the furthest thing from the Uncharted movie we wanted.
Uncharted Fan film: • UNCHARTED - Live Actio...
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Written by Ash MItrano
Edited by Paul Ritchey

[@Demonai_Warrior]

The fan film with Nathan Fillion was way more true to heart than this movie was.

[@roonkolos]

From the jokes to the witty banter and even small touches like Nate's slight rambling or the one camera angle before the fire fight Whoda thunk making something with a bit of passion would make such a difference

[@Kanoog]

Fan Film was incredible! I couldn't agree more

[@craigjuniormorrison4008]

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[@co2_os]

Nathan Fillion IS Nathan Drake. He looks just like him (a bit older version of him)

[@patrickiamonfire965]

The uncharted character was based on Nathan Fillion.

[@SunlightGwyn]

As an Uncharted fan I refused to see the movie because Tom Holland can't play Nathan Drake and Mark Wahlberg can't play Sully. The worst casting decisions I've seen in a long time.

[@DetectiveLance]

Bruce Campbell for Sully?

[@pCeLobster]

Aggressively bad casting. And a lukewarm, anodyne CGI adventure that felt easy and safe. Made National Treasure look gritty by comparison.

[@theoutsiderjess4869]

It was unless they adopted the last game and only had tom play young Drake

[@nathanvanachte8526]

​@@DetectiveLance the best casting would definetly have been Nathan Fillion and Tom Hanks as Sully, I prayed for this 10 years ago and they ruined it

[@MattBooth]

Honestly, Tom just about pulls it off because he's got that cheeky humour down to a T. I would've preferred someone else, but he did the role justice anyway. Made me like Tom Holland more. Mark Wahlberg as Sully was just wrong. There was just nothing Sullivan about him. He didn't do the role any justice. He was not the right casting in any reality. The girl who played Chloe wasn't bad at all.

[@davinci3478]

One of the main problems with almost all video game movies is they feel that they need to always make it an origin story. The games never give a background in the begin, NAte in the games is an experienced wise cracking treasure hunter. The movie waists its time having everyone meet for the first time and Nate being a newby

[@juubilo1509]

​@Paul Jakeman Thats untrue, a pretty decent portion of UC3 was Nathan meeting Sully in his teens

[@Slashercon]

@@juubilo1509 "The games never give a background in the begin," is what he said. By Uncharted 3, Drake and Sully were already established characters.

[@Sohbek]

They don't even touch Nate's origin until what, the third game? Then they expand more in the fourth? Yeah, I have to agree with you.

[@Breathe4you.]

They either do an origin story or try to remake the game in movie form. It makes more sense instead to do a whole knew story that the game didn't show. Game movies should function almost as a new dlc, rather than generic predictable origin

[@MyShiroyuki]

I bet they looked at movies similar to Uncharted, like National Treasure, and made the movies similar to that because they believed Uncharted’s story couldn’t bring in an audience or some other corporate nonsense.

[@leejackson7724]

It devastated me when they didn’t take the Nathan Fillion short further. It was a great opportunity to follow the narrative of the forth game due to Fillions age. It should have been Nate’s daughter discovering her dad’s journal, going to look for the treasure possibly with a friend, getting into trouble and Nate and Sully teaming up to save them. It almost writes itself haha.

[@Demetrix13]

damn bro this would be so good

[@artagle_14]

That would’ve been perfect since us fans are familiar with Nate’s daughter appearing in the Uncharted 4. Either they missed a huge opportunity OR they may be planning to use that story on a new game instead 👀

[@knurdyob]

actually great idea! I always thought it's too late for Nathan Fillion to be cast as Nathan Drake but that idea actually makes a lot of sense.

[@tylerjones4247]

This movie felt more like a reboot of National Treasure than uncharted

[@marceabrann2166]

At least it's better than the national treasure show disney came out with

[@idanlewenhoff2295]

damn that's exactly right

[@taherr]

National treasure was better because it romanticised history and the characters revered it... Unchartered was more like oceans heist film. No reverence for it's in world history.

[@adoptedbyangelinajolie]

Yea it was really bad and didn't feel like uncharted at all. So dissapointing bc i really loved the game so much 😭

[@kluneberg8952]

@@adoptedbyangelinajolie i love the games and i had fun with the movie

[@sirhcgnuoy1657]

They definitely made it to safe. Felt like a Disney version.

[@Zombiesnyder13]

I blame AVI ARAD

[@MrKomplicated]

@@Zombiesnyder13 fr fuck him

[@pablocasas5906]

Well, Sony Pictures is not that far removed from Disney in terms of varying quality between their movies. I remember how in the leaked e-mails from the 2014 Sony Hack some people in the studio felt that their movies were seen as bland and unappealing compared to their competitors. I mean Sony and Columbia Pictures earned a certain reputation for making all those awful Adam Sandler comedies, all of the meddling regarding the Amazing Spider-Man duology and how badly they treated directors and actors. They occasionally make some amazing movies like Spider-Verse and Mitchell's Against the Machines, but they also made things like The Emoji Movie, Venom 1 & 2 and Morbius

[@jeremyshepherd1700]

What did they do once they arrived at the safe?

[@bishbosh4815]

This is what they always do. I guarantee if TLOU was a movie it would be the same. They're just in it for the money, there's no passion for the game, they just want to appeal to a broad target audience, not satisfy the fans of the game

[@dieserboy1601]

They have even rewritten Sams death and betrayal. His death became a claim and post-credit scene and his betrayal was done by Sully. Nathans father figure who never would backstab him. It's truly amazing how they manage to tank this story and charakteres...

[@zumabbar]

seriously sully characterization is the worst offender of the movie.

[@adoptedbyangelinajolie]

We need to do a petition to remake this movie. This time directed by neil druckmann himself

[@zumabbar]

@@adoptedbyangelinajolie meh, not so sure about that. putting aside that he is more of a writer instead of director, the least they can do is get someone who actually plays the game and watches the cutscene lol. let neil handles a way bigger plate (Part II👀) for now.

[@zack8865]

@@zumabbar they could always just Evil Dead 2 the franchise and start over. plus i think it's better as a tv series anyway

[@sergeantbigmac]

@@zack8865 Lol exactly what i was thinking. The only thing they can do is just start over, do a quick montage like the start of Evil Dead 2 "hahah remember this well it didnt happen but also it did and were doing it again" Except the problem with that is they still have the miscasting problem and big actor contracts involved. Im sure their agents negotiated for a multi picture deal. Any chance for a do over or even sequel is stuck in limbo probably forever.

[@bishbosh4815]

It's astonishing how pixels, voice actors and motion capture conveys so much more energy, emotion and life than actual live action actors. Yeah they're only as good as the script and directing, but even if it was more faithful, I just don't believe Tom and Mark couldve ever nailed the dynamic chemistry that Nathan and Sully have

[@Ceasefirerightnow]

They seriously need to remake this mess and do an hbo show out of it instead. It just doesn't work as an action blockbuster movie.

[@bishbosh4815]

@@Ceasefirerightnow even tho it basically is just an interactive action adventure movie 😂

[@BarkerVancity]

tom never even touched the games until after they started filming

[@roonkolos]

The fan film did it infinitely better and barely even any of the run time This one was just "look, we played the game too guys"

[@marcopoloonpollo5937]

I don't think they even played the game, based on their casting choices.

[@roonkolos]

@@marcopoloonpollo5937 damn right on that. I think Tom and Mark are decent enough actors on their own But as Nate and Sully?! Tom has nowhere near the charisma needed and Mark is Mark

[@TheFlash-rh2el]

They definitely played the game. You couldn’t avoid the tone, characters, feel and action of the games if you never played them at least once each. It took work to make this film as soulless and garbage as possible

[@user-sx4qu4dz9z]

@@TheFlash-rh2el W comment

[@roonkolos]

@@TheFlash-rh2el you almost had me I applaud you

[@birdmanjr78]

I freaking loved seeing how nate didnt know how to play crash. It always reminds us how he had a rough life and couldnt afford to sit and play always had to move and survive

[@jay.ostojic]

exactly

[@jon-vegard8386]

Honestly, the closest you will come to the Uncharted feel in a movie is in Adventures of Tintin. It's got crazy action and a great partnership between the leads, as well as that adventure feel

[@FiFiTheFeline]

OMG I REMEMBER WATCHING THAT MOVIE SO MANY TIMES! And you're totally right too, That movie has more of a Uncharted Feel than This "Uncharted Movie" Tintin and The Captain feel more Like Nate and Sully to me Than Tom and Mark

[@chisha8415]

Dude, you are absolutely right

[@caseygudger4110]

i’ve always said this🤣 that’s crazy. tintin had a mobile game that was really good too awhile ago

[@iainronald4217]

I'm a massive fan of Uncharted and there's nothing anyone can do to get me to watch this film. For me, the Nathan Fillion fan film is the only real Uncharted movie.

[@stephenreuwer1572]

I have always been a Nathan Fillion fan, and his fan film elevated that for me. If be more than fine if HBO were to pick it up as a show and cast him. The Last of Us really proved to be quality.

[@tigerwoods373]

Didn't care for the last of us HBO series. The game is one of my all time favorites but they really butchered it. They put too much social warrior garbage in it like a whole episode on bill being gay, Joel having an interracial child and tommy having an African American wife to name a few. They seemed to care too much about cramming social agendas in there.

[@twistedmetal56]

​@@tigerwoods373 ah, so you're a racist

[@Houswal]

HBOs The Last of Us is quality? Generic polished 2 dimensional adaptation with nothing what made the game a masterpiece, just like this movie. If that's what considered quality then we are doomed.

[@tigerwoods373]

@@Houswal I'm glad I'm not the one who thought the series kind of sucked.

[@adoptedbyangelinajolie]

Yess exactly what i was thinking. Turning it into an hbo series

[@Laizikoala]

As soon as I walked out of the theater I said the following thing… “god that short in KZbin was 100 times better than this expensive movie” I’m a huge fan of the Uncharted series, I went as far as naming my first born Nathan, after of course Nathan Drake, and I absolutely hate the movie that Sony put out. Hopefully they reconsider and go the same route TLOU went.

[@ss2jesus]

Did you include Drake in their name as well 🤔

[@CoolSaver]

​@@ss2jesus he changed his last name to it

[@tiktokshorts123.8]

I love that you didn't keep these thoughts inside and just yelled them instead😂😂. I understand tho, cuz the movie was a huge disappointment and Tom Holland was just not it, there is no resemblance between him and Nathan whatsoever, they should have had a better storyline with a cast that looks similar to the characters

[@obijuankenobi3814]

I remember seeing Tom get Nate's role and everyone collectively just went "Nathan Fillion???? Literally the PERFECT REPRESENTATION???" It's nothing against Tom, he has his own great roles like Spiderman. This just wasn't it

[@Ceasefirerightnow]

The whole time while watching the movie i only saw spiderman. I just couldn't see Nathan in him.

[@VenkyBeast]

​@@Ceasefirerightnow I feel you buddy! but about Nathan Fillion...Let's find someone else. That guy is too old for this character and even for him, I couldn't see Nathan in him too.

[@AlexLopezMan]

Nathan Fillion´s fan film is perfection, in my head a perfect movie is set after U4 respecting all canon and to avoid jerks who complain that Fillion is too old, with Sam, Elena ,Cassie and Sully on a family adventure, cameos from Chloe and Charlie Cutter, epic new setpieces ala mission impossible instead of ripping from the games, Nate avoiding killing spree to be an example for Cassie but with clever funny ways to dispose them and the villain will be Eddy Raja´s long lost brother never mentioned before because why not but we got Marky Mark and Spidey-nate because he´s so hot right now

[@Carabas72]

Why do you want to stuff the film with cameos of characters that are utterly meaningless to the target audience? Just do a decent story that introduces Nathan, Elena, and Sully to the mainstream audience, and if it does well you can introduce some more characers in the sequel. What you really don't want to do is make a sequel to the latest game as your first movie that's not going to make sense to people who haven'r played those games (as in 90+% of your audience if you want to make money of this thing).

[@thejohntremendol]

That sounds great & believable. I’d watch that

[@BullyMaguire314]

I remember watching the trailer and being excited, in fact that’s what made me want to play the games. I then binged playing all 5 games and when the movie came out I was a little underwhelmed. Uncharted became one of my favorite Videogame franchise ever and while I enjoyed the movie to an extent, it left a lot to be desired.

[@Ceasefirerightnow]

I was so disappointed and bored shen i watched the movie 😭 they did uncharted dirty af

[@BarkerVancity]

you liked the trailers? when i saw them i immediately knew the movie was not uncharted

[@BullyMaguire314]

@@BarkerVancityI saw the trailer before I played the games dog, after I played them I was trying to convince myself that it would be good 😭

[@thombrown]

You summed it up perfectly, explaining how those involved in making the film just didn't have a love for the source material.

[@Naqvioski]

This is the most important thing. You need creators who 'care' about the source material.

[@sxeptomaniac]

I think the movie's whole thing gets summed up by the way a guy gets his throat slit on-screen and there was zero blood. It was an illusion of violence and danger, but a body with no blood or wounds.

[@ryans413]

It’s Pg-13 my guy they can’t show blood and it’s geared more towards being family friendly. Plus there was no blood in any of the uncharted games

[@Davidparty3]

@@ryans413 That is not true, there has always been blood in the uncharted videogames.

[@ryans413]

@@Davidparty3 yea in cutscenes and only little there’s no blood when you kill all the bad guys is what I’m saying. The director in the movie actually talked about that scene. Originally they showed his throat being slit but later decided not too show it because they thought it was too dark for an Uncharted movie. It’s not a big deal what you are complaining about.

[@themanwhowouldbebrick]

@@ryans413 pg-13 movies can show blood, look at the jurassic park movies

[@sxeptomaniac]

@@ryans413 That's part of my point. They specifically acted and shot the scene in such an incongruous way, given the target audience. They were trying to make the tone of the scene brutal and violent, but with none of the results of violence.

[@frozenfoxgames5300]

3:14 Calling Elena "badass" is an understatement, a huge one.

[@IDyce88]

i wouldn't say elena is badass...she is sassy...and smart...and brave...but badass is more Chloe's role.

[@lucoakanrogithe2ahashira509]

I got to meet Nolan north a few months ago and talked about his video game roles and of corse brought up his cameo in the uncharted movie. He said he would love to be a reoccurring character if more sequels are made and also that his brother was surprised to see him in the movie

[@aliminator1310]

Not just Nate and Sully. But CHLOE'S character was also changed to be flatter! In the games, she wanted to find an ancient city that her father had tried to find years prior, whereas, in the movie, her father was just a lazy drunk who pawned off an artifact that she found for drinking money!

[@john-tobeymaguirecena]

My wife & I decided to watch the Mummy with Brendan Fraser after not seeing it for a long time. After going through much nostalgia, I realized how perfect Brenden would play a witty Nathan Drake. He has the whole get up in the Mummy. He has the sarcasm wittiness & everything. I always felt Mark Wahlberg or Tom Cruise had the Drake vibe too.

[@jay.ostojic]

true, i could see (young) fraser play drake

[@vancityband6577]

Watching Mark Wahlberg in any video game adaption evokes maximum pain for me.

[@Snowy265]

Watching him in anything does the same for me.

[@aveteranplayer6403]

​@@Snowy265 Mark Wahlberg is not a bad actor or whatever. But his movies, he can't really see to engage me, his most fun movie I ever saw and liked it was Ted 1 and 2. But I got tired of watching him on screen, he just doesn't fit the superb factor of acting and screenplay certain characters. He did several type, but all of them are just mediocre characters. Take for example Ted, Uncharted and that military movie he made. You can't see him what role he was born for. Like Daniel Craig smells James Bond, JK simmons is Jonah Jameson, Steve Carell is Michael Scott, Tobey Maguire is Spiderman, Johnny Depp is Jack Sparrow and etc. Mark I don't know, the main problem that I have with his movies that his acting is equivalent to a side character, when it comes to be a main one he just feel like he is rehearsing and feel like someone is told him what he should do or say and not like he is acting like he is the character himself. I never had a problem with his movies that he is a side character but making Max Payne and then Sully it feels completely off to me. His movies is just forgettable.

[@iSeeEZEkill]

@@aveteranplayer6403 the other guys is still one of my favorite movies ever. His acting is best when not taken seriously.

[@abellewis3062]

Mark Wahlberg did a good job in Ted and Ted 2. Enough said.

[@glembass]

It evokes Max Payne for me as well

[@KLiPZmusic]

I honestly think Tom could have been a really good Nathan Drake… in 5-10 years from now. He’s too young now and the idea that Mark Wahlberg played Sully should have never left the casting office.

[@srl00001]

That fan made short with Nathan fillion was the greatest uncharted tribute ever!

[@tarroyo]

FINALLY someone said it! Glad you addressed this, Hollywood failed us with this one.

[@marcomoneyhernandez]

Tom Holland is a good Spiderman, there's no doubt about that. but in this movie it looked like he wasn't too much into it, his performance seemed like he was just tired, or just getting a movie out of his Sony contract out of the way. it's also hard to to see him as the MAIN character when Mark Wahlberg is right there, and didn't seem like he knew how to act out the "side character" role. this movie needed someone a little bit older, or someone who looked older to play the main characters role.

[@StormX6]

Agreed. I like Tom Holland and all, but he’s waaaaay too young to be Nathan Drake.

[@Utonian21]

"He's a good spiderman" that's debatable. I have nothing against Tom Holland, but I have a hard time seeing him as Peter Parker. Peter isn't some shy, reserved, scaredy-cat, he's an instigator, and a trash-talker, who can come off as a bit of a jerk sometimes.

[@jedimasterren4208]

Wild! My wife and I literally just watched this movie last night and i came out feeling the exact same. Where was the relationship between Sully and Nate!

[@FJX2000_Productions]

This video sums it up so well. This is my favorite game franchise and I knew once they casted big name actors for the sake of popularity rather than actors that would be more true to the characters in the game, like in the case of that 2018 fan film, that we were in trouble. There is a chance that a sequel in the future if given the proper treatment could be better and more true to the source material, especially since they sort of set it up for one in the post credits scene, but I’m not holding my breath.

[@Ceasefirerightnow]

Why can't they just remake the movie but with fillion. It's never too late :(

[@thebroken0wastaken]

In the commercials for this movie I noticed something was off, but I was still excited. It wasn't until I saw small video with Holland and Wahlberg talking up the movie where the lack of chemistry was so obvious that I decided not to pay theater prices. After hearing the reviews, I feel like I made the correct choice, and I still haven't seen it to this day

[@The-Mstr-Pook]

The best uncharted movie is the Minisode that Nathan Fillion did. His humour style is a perfect Nathan Drake. I highly recommend you look it up. Edit: Oh look its mentioned in this video. 7:47 that's what happens when you comment before completing. Guess I've got to work on my premature injection.

[@Nerdstalgic]

Check out the episode and our link in description!

[@SunlightGwyn]

Yea that was the best. The fact that these clowns that made the movie ignored a PERFECT blueprint for a full movie and instead went with Spiderboy and Mark Wahlberg shows us that these people have no idea what they are doing.

[@mcurran6505]

Nathan Fillion was brilliant as Nathan Drake in that fan film.

[@TyMarshall007]

That's the Uncharted movie we all wanted

[@JeremyHernandez4]

Yes Nathan fillion looks like him and he played good for the role of Drake but noooo they have to choose tom Holland

[@EmilioMejia]

I worked on a bit of the short film and can confirm everybody involved cared about the source material, beginning with Nathan Fillion. We still talk about the stunt rig to get the over the shoulder shots of Nate jumping around. The feature didn't care about the characters or the fact that they came from a video game.

[@thoughtfulsoul]

Someone had to say it!!! Thank you so much for expressing what I've been thinking too since I saw the movie

[@mihancic]

Thanks for the fan film link !!! Love Nathan Fillion.

[@Raul-yg5oz]

Uncharted for me is very nostalgic because I remember that uncharted was my first T rated game I remember renting it from BLOCKBUSTER and being so amazed at the graphics at the time they where out of this world and then I bought it and man waking up at 2:30 on a Friday was amazing I was so intrigued by the story

[@jackmorgan8914]

Having Mark Wahlberg in an uncharted movie but not have him play Nathan Drake is baffling

[@LCyte88]

The KZbin version will forever be my version of Live Action Uncharted

[@PremierePaladin]

I would love to see this done again in the same sort of way as the fan film by Nathan Fillon in the format of a TV show like The Last of Us. THAT would be epic!

[@jamieconn6896]

When I heard the casting I think everyone knew this wasn’t going to work. Honestly thought it was going to cover his younger years set before the games.

[@fettfanfilms209]

So far you are the only person I’ve seen make a video saying it wasn’t like the games… THANK YOU

[@shauncollinson4393]

Nate and sully cracking jokes of past adventurers or even ones we went on with them is always a favourite little moment. I don't think the people who made the movie actually played through all the games and they should have. The relationship sully and Nate have or even sam and sully have is incredible it's obvious how long though have known each other and the movie makes it out like its just some guy he met as a adult and decided to work with because he mentioned his brother's name. Sully in the games knows about Sam prior to you getting him back in the 4th game and that's accurate because sully knew about Sam since he first met Nate but in the movie they make it out as they used the be freinds and they worded together.

[@srami004]

It was all about putting high celebrity status actors as opposed to recognizing heart. What makes the product special in the eyes of the fans…They want to play it safe…

[@kylesstudios1936]

I really saw what the director was trying to do. In some parts of the film, I could clearly see how they basically redid some scenes from all of the uncharted games, but redid it in a way to be put in the game and could easily have not been pointed out. For Example: 1. There was a scene where Nate And Chloe where looking up in the sewer in the movie, and had some mechanics, that looked like the scene in Uncharted 4 where the camera aimed up, at the clock tower. 2: The ending scene of the ships, reminded of the first game, where the helicopter took the statue in El Dorado up in the sky, but in this instant, it was the ships and the ships reminded of Uncharted 4 There are more comparrisions i’d share of what I thought, but i’d be too long of a paragraph, but just playing Uncharted series a million times, I know in the movie, they switched things up in a different perspective but somewhat recreated the games, tho it changed a major in characters, locations, viewpoints. I believe they are trying to recreate the whole movie as the games story, but this means a whole different perspective

[@ChaosMechanica]

It doesn't help that the script went through several iterations that seemed to only see "Among Thieves" in Uncharted 2's title and decide that the franchise must mean everyone is out to get each other at all times

[@IgorTavern]

And this is why I avoid live action game adaptations. Animations are way better and not afraid of adapting his own thing while respecting the game. Exemple: Monster Hunter, Dragon Quest: Your Story and Advent Children. Thanks for another amazing video!

[@allanungar2542]

Thanks for all the love guys. It continues to be appreciated.

[@weltallelite]

I actually liked it. I’m a big fan of the games and this is NOT Nate and Sully, but I’m also a sucker for big adventure treasure hunter movies and I thought it stood up well enough on its own. I thought the performances were good, as long as I looked at them in their own merit and didn’t compare them to the source material.

[@NotGoneButLost]

Took a lot of scrolling to see this comment, but I agree.

[@HamazuraGOD]

So basically. Okay treasure hunt movie, bad uncharted movie?

[@weltallelite]

@@HamazuraGOD I would say reasonably good adventure movie, bad Uncharted movie. But that’s just my mileage.

[@HamazuraGOD]

@@weltallelite I can accept that

[@ryans413]

I think people get lost in comparing every aspect to the games. They told us going in it was going to be a younger Drake and be a somewhat origin story it’s own story that takes things from the games but dose not follow the games. I knew it was not going to be a 1 to 1 recreation when I went to see it and I saw it twice by the way. I liked the movie the middle section a little boring but you get that in an origin story they have to set everything up. The ending sequence with Mark in full Sully and Tom in his full Nathan got me really excited for a sequel and Sullys cat was hilarious that got a big laugh from everyone. Not saying everyone has to like the movie but I think people are confused on what it is it’s not a 1 to 1 recreation.

[@JGCoolfella]

very late but this helped me realize the biggest issue: the game (Uncharted 3's flashback) showed Nate and Sully meeting when he was still very young. Nate was hesitant to begin with, as you'd expect from a young kid especially who had been as independent as he was. But he needed a father figure and menor, and they both could relate to each other in many ways. This lead to a fairly quick bond that was already established well before the 1st game takes place. The movie uses a young Tom Holland to appear similar to the flashback age Nate, but he is closer to the main playable Nate's age leaving it feeling like a weird in between version. Since he's already a mid 20s adult, he doesn't really need or relate to Sully in the same way as in the game, and even if he does, the whole movie doesn't allow for time for their bond to grow. There really isn't any substance to having the 2 characters together at all. I think if they wanted to go the young route with someone like Tom Holland, they should have done a series and either allow the friendship to grow or start it already well established. It could have even tied into the movies better, as we already had the backstory and could have filled in the years where Sam clashes with Sully, they all try to get started in their treasure hunting adventures up to where Sam is left in prison.

[@george4821]

One area I have to give credit to the film on is the makeup artist. Mark Whalburg in particular looks a lot like a video game character. It's a way to better connect the film with the games.

[@ViperChief117]

I’m a massive fan of the Uncharted franchise. Which I played non stop during the Pandemic before the film released. I still liked it even though it wasn’t beat by beat from the games.

[@mudshrooze]

"Pandemic"

[@LeonardoKlotz]

Ruben Fleischer used to be a decent director Now he's just another director for hire

[@type_s_tyler7547]

I liked it for the callbacks and nostalgia. As a huge fan of the franchise, I left the theater feeling more satisfied than I thought I would, but I know if I see the movie again I won't like it as much, so I don't think i'll give it a rewatch anytime soon. That fanfilm is also a lot better and Nathan Fillion shoulda been cast as Drake

[@Brendan-Grant]

This was so spot on. Exactly how I remember feeling when leaving the theater. The characters were vapid and one dimensional and had none of their charm or charisma from the games. I remember being really disappointed at the dynamic between Nate and Sully. They didn't trust each other the whole movie, yet in the games, Nate trusts Sully more than anyone.

[@Zombiesnyder13]

It takes ambition to make a videogame adaptation work And AVI ARAD has none of that

[@jbcatz5]

It takes respect for the source material.

[@Zombiesnyder13]

@@jbcatz5 that's also part of ambition

[@justanamericandoggo6725]

Videogames shouldn't be made into movies, if anything Videogames are somewhat an ultimate form of art.

[@djjjjj]

Could someone who has seen the film explain why Sully and Nate completely destroyed Magellan's ships? And also what was at stake at that point? I might be misremembering....but who cares if the mercenaries get the ships? Surely that's a better scenario than completely destroying them "if we can't have them, nobody can!".... I must have missed something... one minute they're on a treasure hunt, the next minute they're smashing the ships into rockfaces. I still don't get why Nate or Sully tried to prevent the mercenaries from excavating the ships by completely destroying them. Most people would have just shrugged or hid until they landed and tried to sneak away. Instead they wreck the ships when an already heavily funded mercenary group has successfully retrieved them. I dont get it. Was there any point to it,?

[@Zephyrione]

Honestly there's nothing Nathan Fillion cant do better than others. The man is a legit pure talent on camera.

[@ryanellison1652]

I totally agree with you and your opinions about Uncharted: Movie, it’s actually actors and actresses did trying their best on handling their roles in movie, plus couldn’t find someone actresses who can place Elena Fisher, first game of series

[@bubblebobbler]

When I first saw a trailer for the movie, I thought Tom looked like an excellent young Nathan and looked like a good casting compared to the game...then I realized he's meant to be the modern day Nathan..

[@RayMcElroy50]

I knew how this movie was gonna play out when I saw that AVI ARAD was involved

[@HarvestStore]

Great video.

[@spellxthief]

man, this whole video just makes me want more nathan fillion in general

[@manleeman5212]

Let me put ot this way, i enjoyed this ten minute video more overall and probably for a longer duration of time than everything I liked in the movie combined.

[@chiefbologna5719]

It has Mark Wahlberg in it, what were people expecting?

[@planescaped]

Whaaaat? No...

[@Snowy265]

Yeah, he's shit.

[@renegilramos3661]

How to make an Uncharted movie; 1) Take Uncharted 4 2) Take out the gameplay 3) release to theaters = profit!

[@Batman-ps4om]

💀

[@DaminionC]

It could have been a trilogy of movies staring a young Tom holland as a young Nathan drake in flash backs. With an actor at least 12 years older playing Nathan drake in the present.

[@izumi4188]

Oh, there’s no one here yet. I caught it the second it came out. The Perks of sleeping in lol

[@Nerdstalgic]

👋

[@kas1680]

Cheers!

[@KillerMoth_Stumpy]

Nice

[@planescaped]

Man, Nathan Fillion was a perfect casting for Nathan Drake.

[@daizenmarcurio]

As a kid before i even played uncharted (started playing it now in my adult years) i akways thought tom cruise would be a perfect fit. But i guess he's too old now

[@VortexStory]

Starting with the plane sequence is the biggest grip I have with the movie.

[@TheGEARGUY123]

I love Uncharted (literally have a tattoo referencing the games) I refuse to see the movie, one of the critiques I heard was “it could have been titled National Treasure 3 and it would’ve done the same thing” and I’ve never been more disappointed

[@Daddydorf13]

We love Tom Holand but the dude was a terrible choice for playing Nathan Drake. Maybe for a younger version in a flashback or two during the movie but this role should have been given to Fillion.

[@NTWoo95]

I think Tom Cruise would actually be a good Nathan Drake if they started making the movies 10 years ago. I think in the Mission Impossible series he really sells the “making the most of out of a no-win situation” that Drake showcases time and time again

[@zack8865]

Tom just doesn't have the cynical but also silly personality that Drake has

[@RoGameReview]

A tv mini series with Nathan Fillon would be the best

[@ancamp98]

Thank you!!!

[@stapuft]

THING IS it IS though..... it tells its story EXACTLUY how the games do, they start you off in the middle of crazy action only for something dramatic to happen that causes a flashback, to the actual begining of the story, and then the whole story is told up to and including the part we already saw/played, only for it to keep going and progress to the third and final act of the story. NO OTHER GAME MOVIE has even TRIED to tell their stories in the same way the games do, and that ALONE makes it feel more like uncharted than anything else they could have done. including but not limited to forcing markey mark to grow a mustache.

[@The_Story_Of_Us]

You know what’s missing?… Charm. That’s what’s really missing in this movie. The charm that the cast and writers and directors of the games brought to these characters with pulpy lightness in tone. I could even go so far as to describe it as “wholesome”, in a way that’s just bubbling under joking, sarcastic banter. Not only was Mark badly cast (And I’m not sorry, Tom was a great cast for Nathan Drake, I don’t care what anyone says), but the writing just didn’t have that charm. And oh, the everyone’s just newly introduced to each other thing: not an excuse. The games had the feeling I’m describing even when the characters barely knew each other, like Nate and Elena in UC1 or Nate and Sully in the UC3 flashbacks. I’m pretty sure that the writers and director did not understand the games enough. The Last Of Us didn’t work so brilliantly because of anything innate, it worked because they paired a MEGAFAN and tv visionary Craig Mazin with the fucking guy who wrote and directed the games themselves, Neil Druckmann. Uncharted was doomed before it started. Because I can throw a few names out there that should have been involved hands on: Neil Druckmann (one of the directors and writers of the games), Josh Scherr (one of the writers), Bruce Straley (a director) and most of all Amy Hennig, who is to Uncharted what Neil is to The Last Of Us. If you think about it: Hiring the director of VENOM for this… eh… I don’t care that he did Zombieland, it ain’t Uncharted. If The Last Of Us proved anything, it’s that if you want it to be great, you need people who firmly understand the source material to the bone.

[@Ceasefirerightnow]

I totally agree. It just felt like another action movie like Mission impossible. Horrible.

[@wasabi-in-my-eye3134]

A round of applause to the uncharted video game crew. The magic you guys n gals did a decade ago still reign supreme.

[@WhilzNuas]

Not to mention that the "Magellan's Treasure" plot of Nathan Fillion's Uncharted Fan FIlm was stolen and used in Uncharted. I was actually happy with Tom Holland taking the mantle because he at least resembles young Nate in Uncharted 3 and 4 in the flashback chapters which I thought they were going to use. Instead, like what you said, went FLAT. They could have used both Tom Holland as the young Nate, stories being told by the older wiser Nate cast as Nathan Fillion telling his daughter Cassie as if it was the postlude of Uncharted 4. Come on, Nathan Fillion freaking nails it as Nathan Drake! The intelligent nerd mumblings and gigglings over historical myths, he definitely brought Nate to life.

[@JerryFlowersIII]

The part that I CAN'T get over is how bad that first chase scene with Nate and Chloe went. Tom was giving his all to the camera and pulled off some decent looking moves, while Chloe had a basic run and would clumsily get by simple obstacles. It was laughably bad to see them cut back to back like that.

[@pyrokatarina]

They couldn't get a better athletic woman for the scene😂

[@connormatthews522]

Man I'd probably pay pretty handsomely for a short, well-made live action show with the crew from the short film

[@dercio154]

Thank you!! Finally someone made a video about it! So I’m a Uncharted fanboy. My god how I love those games that I grew up with. And yes, the characters where what was standing out in those games. And as a huuuge huuge fan of the games that i completed Idk how many times, it was very sad to see this movie be so generic as it was and at the end I thought that the only Uncharted thing in it was a title itself…

[@FlackNCoke]

Harrison Ford should’ve played Sully and then you get Bradley Cooper to play Nathan. It’d work.

[@kevinmcgovern5388]

It was missing one thing. Nolan’s heart and soul.

[@whooshwhoosh]

I think Tom played the part really well, probably the only part of the movie that actually worked

[@adamazzalino5247]

Nah

[@jacobq.2204]

ROFL No he was terrible. Probably one of the worst castings in a very long time. Not as bad as all the race changing casting happening lately but still very bad.

[@planescaped]

I thought he was horribly miscast.

[@TheShaneGuy]

I agree with most of the synopsis of the uncharted movie. It was more like national treasure and forgot the character dynamics betweenKey characters. However the opening was trying to open the way the 2nd game did on the train and gradually introduce different levels of the story and character which worked for the game brilliantly but wasn't written well for a movie narrative as they had no game mechanics or tutorials to introduce.

[@harmonyvocals2853]

For the title of the video, I like to add that with a big fat “EXACTLY”!!!!!☝🏻but for the narrator that mentioned that OTHER live-action teaser, Thanks for that!😄

[@blairmcauley2497]

I’m a big fan of the uncharted franchise I was excited for this movie when I saw the movie I thought it was cool but it could be a lot better I agree this isn’t a true uncharted film hopefully the second film will be better and introduce Elena fisher

[@countrytime2121]

The fact that Nathan Fillion wasn’t cast as drake for the movie is an actual crime

[@marlaballard1155]

In my head canon, Sahara with Matthew McConnaghey is the movie adaptation of Uncharted.

[@wncryz]

What I love about these games the most is relationship between Nate and Sully

[@M.W.H_MUSIC]

Massive fan of the games, I found this film really good, I think it was a great opener in my eyes so ready for the sequels, too many people want everything all at once these days with cinema, something's just require a build across a few movies

[@kjdee140]

This movie feels more like a promotion for the games than an actual adaptation.

[@linkage432]

Ironic how video games can feel like movies at times but movies very rarely know how to translate what made the video games so great to the screen.

[@theawemazingcrew9702]

I liked the movie, it was a solid enough adventure story. It wasn't an uncharted movie though. I had to watch it pretending it was just an adventure movie

[@MarioLamRedRebel]

I am a big fan of the games but for movie made from a game......its a joy to watch and hope for a second part. 5 stars from the 5. 👍🤘

[@raidanforster6273]

It felt like it was a basic heist movie. I actually forgot it was an uncharted movie multiple times only being reminded of it when a scene referenced the games like the plane scene or finding the pirate ship came up or when Nolan North had his little Easter egg

[@TonberryShuffle]

The other part that hurt the movie in the eyes of fans, even if it was does entirely to keep a lower rating than a hard R, was how tame the violence was in the action scenes. In addition to the characters not feeling at all like their video game counterparts in anyway except name the action scenes also felt flat. In the games Nathan is no stranger to going full John Wick (or, should we say, John Wick goes full Nathan Drake?) on hordes of enemies while also completing these insane acrobatic stunts to get through a complicated environment. Not only would that not be believable for Tom Holland to do but removing those entirely changes the nature of how movie Nathan works in his world.

[@corbinowens2437]

Wasn't IN LOVE w/ it like I am the games, but I still enjoyed the movie & think it was a fun lil origin for the characters. I do hope they grow more in to the videogame characters if they keep making the movies