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"We picked Tom Holland because this movie takes place before the games" Literally every setpiece is stolen from the games.

The Uncharted story was already brilliantly told. The director had the perfect blueprints to make a great movie adaptation. Yet Hollywood still couldn’t help themselves

Critocal Drinker: The casting in uncharted makes as much sense as putting Rebel Wilson in a remake of the predator Hollywood: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN

Naughty Dog: "We should make Nathan Drake look like a mix between Johnny Knoxville and Harrison Ford. Kind of scruffy and handsome with a good hint of badass." Hollywood: "Nathan Drake is a muscular boy scout."

Laid out on a silver platter and still fumbled it. Gotta admit, that's impressive

You know everything’s fucked when Nathan Fillion makes a better Uncharted movie than a Hollywood studio

These games are already so cinematic and well acted that I never felt the need for a feature film.

The funny part about saying that Mark Wahlberg would've been Nathan Drake if the movie was made ten years ago is that was the actual plan; the idea had been pitched to the studio about a decade ago with Wahlberg as Drake and Robert De Niro as Sully. I still remember reading about it in an issue of Game Informer when I was in high school. Edit: grammar

I’m convinced that Hollywood lacks all creativity and now their stealing plots from games, which were 1000x better in the game

One thing that "always" bugs me in movies is that prop gold as a general rule is way too light, real gold is HEAVY.

Sully is supposed to be the one person Nate can trust not to betray him, which gives them a great, interesting, and most importantly believable relationship. I don’t get what was wrong with this. My biggest question though, what happened to Elena?

What I hated the most was the exclusion of Elena. It really seems like the movie is trying to push Chloe and Nate together which will not end well. In the games, Nate needs Elena to be the man that he is, without her he isn't himself. Without Elena, Nate is going to end up just like Sully, while I do love Sully I think Nate deserves something more.

Never EVER underestimate the ability of Hollywood to take a great, established story and run it into the ground. They do it with books, they do it with games and they even do it with remakes of previously made movies and shows.

Writer: So which of the 5 games should we make? Executive: Yes.

“Mark Wahlberg is an actor in the same way that breaking into a light jog to catch a train makes you an athlete. “ Pure gold.

It's also really unbelievable how many actors play themselves all the time. Mark wahlberg, george clooney, ryan reynolds Jeff Goldblum, the list goes on and on with a few notable exceptions but other than that....

What makes it so mutch more hillarious, is that the games already were practically interractive movies. You could comfortably make each game into shows, and almost exacly retell the stories.

The Uncharted games were praised for having "big budget holly wood scenes". Ironically when they make a movie adaptation, it's actually tamer than what it was originally emulating.

I went to see this movie with my GF, she's never heard of Uncharted before, unlike me. I was pretty disappointed by the movie but I was surprised to see her disappointed more than me. She thought the movie was just a soulless action cash-grab with nothing going for it. Can't say I disagree, but I was really sad to see them not take the original Uncharted story.

Bruce Campbell should play Sully if they ever do a decent movie version of these games. He looks the part and has the right comedic chops for it

"Mark Wahlberg is an actor, in the same way that breaking into a light jog to catch a train makes you an athlete." God damn, you didn't have to kill the man lol

"The casting of uncharted makes about as much sense as putting Rebel Wilson in a remake of predator" - don't go giving them ideas now.

Tom Holland as Nathan Drake is so hilarious. With the roles this guy gets in movies, he must've had some strong connections with people in the industry.

Nathan Fillion was, is, and will be the man for the job to play Nathan. He may be older but he’s got the look, the attitude, and the acting style to make it a fantastic film.

Every time they do anything like this it's never how "COULD they mess this up?" It's always, "How will they mess it up this time?"

It should’ve been the easiest video game to make an exciting movie like a modern Indiana Jones, but it was your generic action blockbuster with questionable casting.

Man wtf? I was just going to see this with a friend and now you tell me it sucks. This seemed like a pretty easy win. Like Fast and the Furious easy.

Hearing you rip it apart like this just made me audibly cry. I can't believe they served it up on a platter and spent far too much fucking time on the wrong shit.

It's a shame we didn't get an extended version of the Nathan Fillion/Stephen Lang fan film instead. _That_ was fantastic, and the casting was much more fitting.

Dude, after "Dragonball: Evolution" and "The Last Airbender", I will never underestimate the ability of Hollywood to mess something up again.

It's hard to imagine how they could screw this up. The games themselves had a very cinematic quality to them I felt more like I was playing a movie than a game most of the time.

Also, the absence of Elena is a HUGE miss for me. They'd better pray they get signed for a sequel, because to me, the IP isn't the same without her. She's Nathan's ground to the real world, the person who tempers him and holds him to reality. She provides the primary and ultimate choice for Nathan between normal life and epic treasurehunting. He's forced to grapple with the transcendent worth of either choice, and in the end is compelled to turn away from the fleeting deception of riches in favor of something longer lasting and less empty. They didn't really play up any of that, it was more about Sully at the end to be honest.

As soon as I saw the casting choices of Drake and Sulley I was like nah, not for me! It seems like Hollywood tries to fail these days! Thanks for saving me 2 hours Drinker! ✌🏼

This film is honestly the perfect example of Hollywood relying on nostalgia over content. Taking memorable scenes from the games, sprinkling them throughout the film, and hoping for the best. Uncharted honestly could've been a solid film-series, even a binge-series, but stuffing five games worth of story into one film, no doubt this film failed. Anyways, here's a Masterclass on how to ruin a franchise before it even begins.

"Let's put a mustache on Mark Whalberg, that should satisfy the fans"

If you can find the Uncharted: Live Action Fan Film with Nathan Fillion and Stephen Lang, I highly recommend it!

Easily. Hollywood is every good idea's kryptonite.

Ironically, while making "Uncharted," Hollywood went in a very predictable direction.

What I dislike about treasure hunting movies is that ALWAYS the sequence of following clues to unravel new clues to lead to new clues to lead eventually to the treasure... there are always some steps that completely nullify everything that preceded them. The narrative point of the two crosses was that Magellan and his crew didn't trust each other, so they locked the treasure in such a way that they have to team up to reclaim it. This makes the first step of the treasure hunt reasonable. You need the two crosses to open a door, and you need cooperation from two sides to unlock everything and not die. But was the treasure locked there as a reward for team work? Nope. The treasure was placed in some cave visible and accessible to anyone with a boat. Sure, you'd need cooperation to get the directions to the treasure if you're a newcomer, but Magellan and the crew put the treasure there in the cave. They knew where it was. They didn't need the directions. They didn't need to traverse an elaborate maze and risk their lives for trust to reach the treasure. It happens every time. Every single time. It's always a standstill at the first clue, but somewhere along the convoluted world-spanning path there's a ridiculously large location that is stupidly visible and accessible via helicopter because there's always natural lighting, that somehow we need to trust that nobody has ever found because there was a standstill on the other side of the world.

Magellan never had an expedition revolving gold or goods on this ship, his expedition was to to find an alternative way to the Indies. The writers of this script do study before coming up with the plot, right?

Bruce Campbell would have been a great choice to play Sully. He's 63, and basically played that character for years on Burn Notice.

The helicopters carrying those ships with just hooks represent the current creative extent of any hollywood writer

I feel like the movie would've carried a lot more impact if it was as much about the treasure as finding Samuel Drake. If they'd establish Sam and Nate's childhood more. Picture this, Sully finally opens up to Nate about his partnership with Sam. He and Sam were partners in crime, they got a lead, Sam betrays Sully, and got away with the lead. He's been trying to find another one ever since and found Nate just in time for a heist (they met in a meaningful event that started the dynamic between these characters). Sully worked with Nate and once he found out that he was a Drake same as Sam, Sully wanted to get the treasure for himself and then screw Nate over since his brother did the same to him. This all changed when they eventually developed their relationship to be mentor-student instead of just partner thieves. Eventually, they get to the treasure and Sully finds a skeleton there. The skeleton is wearing a blue shirt and a pair o jeans with something in it's hands. Nate sees Sully and goes closer to take a look. Sully holds Nate back but Nate insists and finds it clutching a photograph of Sam and Nate while they were still kids. That is the fate of Samuel Drake. Maybe you could insert a note where he apologized to Sully and Nate or some writing on the wall saying something like "I did it, Nate. We got our ticket." or smth. Imagine how gut-wrenching it would be for the audience, Sully, and especially Nate. It would be a great twist on the original Uncharted's story and add organic drama into the story. It would also remind everyone how dangerous this job is and the consequences that go with it.

Wahlberg, Reynolds, Johnson, Statham... All play themselves with a different skin on. 2 of those have enough charisma that you (mostly)overlook the blatant cut-and-paste, the 3rd sells actionscenes due to being an actual martial artist, while the last.. His most believable role was honestly that biodrama about the Boston bombing, since he's a bostonian playing one, so for once the accent wasn't all fake. That's... probably the best thing I can say about his acting career.

I like how it starts with “15 years ago” and the kid they got for young Drake looked nearly the same age as Tom Holland.

How did they mess it up? Well, casting someone with the face of a 12 year old boy as Nathan along with Mark “state the obvious while heavy breathing” Wahlberg is a good start

I was actually in the runner up for playing Nathan drake 10 years ago. (Keeping my anonymity) it was originally in talks to have David O Russel to direct and once he dropped out mark wahlberg dropped out. And seeing this now what a tragedy of a film they made.

It was complete and utter PANTS! The flying ships were up there with F&F 9 (10?) for complete stupidity... surprised they did not make it into orbit.

And again, the Drinker saved me another 2 hours of wasted time and at least $12 on a theater seat. Thanks, Drinker.

"Mark Wahlberg is an actor in the same way that breaking into a light jog to catch a train makes you an athlete" Absolute savagery 😂🤣😂

Just watched this for the first time last night and you’ve pretty much summed up my take on it. Felt like the first hour of the movie was just a huge waste of time due to one major oversight: so they gotta go through all this effort to get these special keys to find this secret passage into these ancient, booby-trapped catacombs that have been untouched for centuries-only to stumble out of an…air vent? Into a… rave party? In a… bar? What the crap? So some maintenance worker who installed that air vent could have just snooped around and gotten on the trail of one of the greatest treasure hunts in history? Did none of the writers consider this? But out of everything wrong with this movie, I’d say my biggest issue was the casting-and of all of the casting issues, the most glaring of them has to be Sully. What a disservice they did to his character. He’s supposed to be the brash, supportive father figure to Nate while also serving as his voice of reason-warning him to stay out of drama and stick to finding the treasure. Here they made him a weasely, conniving, greedy, scum-bag who only cares about himself. Like, throughout the movie, it really seemed like they were trying to write him off as a bad influence for Nate, showing that maybe Chloe would be a better fit for him… and I freekin hate Chloe-even from the games. Her character just always rubbed be the wrong way and I could never understand her appeal. But that’s another rant…

I loved the games so much. The characters were richly developed and my wife even enjoyed the movie element while knitting in the background. It definitely could have been amazing if the story was based on the game or if the actors were appropriately cast. I suspect Tom Holland was chosen to appeal to teenage girls if my daughters reaction to it was to measure anything by. Drake is an awesome character and while Tom makes a pretty reasonable Spiderman he's simply too child like to pull off this part.

Nothing against them personally, but immersion is a big part of a movie and I just see Mark Walberg and Peter Parker teaming up to stop cup-noodles hair from getting a generic treasure before they do.

If anyone else has seen the Uncharted fan film with Nathan Fillion, you would also agree he should have been cast as Nathan Drake.

Spot on! I'm too old to understand this T.Holland hype. Babyface with zero personality, who was only looking good in spider man just because A.Garfield was before him and was even worst. Tobey is only P.Parker! And yes, when I heard that they choose Wahlberg play as Sully, oh man... I cried so much.

I just watched this yesterday and I couldn’t agree more. I wanted to spend more time exploring an exotic, forgotten local. The treasure hunt was a bit mind boggling. 18 guys put all that in motion in order to hide/remember where they parked their ships full of gold? Am I missing something? The casting definitely left much to be desired and the antagonist went from reasonable choice to lame real fast and too soon even. I can see her turning on Banderas after finding the gold, which would’ve been dramatic, but that far in advance? Then you go and throw 2 straps on 500 year old wooden ships and conveniently there’s a whole big enough in the face ceiling to fly them up and out 🙄 without them falling apart considering that’s 500 years of water damage and weathering to them 😑

"How could they mess this up?" The movie was in production hell for a decade, and when they finally decided to actually make it they hired the showrunner for the awful Wheel of Time series to punch up the script.

The biggest heavy-lift helicopter in existence can lift up to 44 tons. The smallest one of Magellan's ship was around 75 tons.

“An actor in the same way Breaking into a light jog to catch a train makes you an athlete” 😭

I've never played the games, but for the most part, was entertained by the movie. What I will remember about though is the concept of having 2x 500 year old ships lifted out of the water by helicopters. 🙄

You know one thing I love about your channel? You jump right into the subject matter. You don't waste time with a long introduction or a 3-minute ad. You just get into what we're all here for.

The casting alone.... "Who we gonna get?" "F*** it! Mark Wahlberg and the spiderman kid, i'm clocking out"

We couldn't get past half way and that was painful. Great review as usual.

Like the man said, this movie absolutely should have been a slam dunk. Hire age appropriate actors to just do what happens in the games. They're already so cinematic, you have to try really hard to screw it up. And they took that as a challenge.

Bruce Campbell would've been a perfect Sully. He basically was a Sully like character in Burn Notice.

They really should have done one movie with Nathan Fillion, then say "this was easier when we were younger" and do a flash back when he was Tom.

The "people with expertise in anthropology/linguistics and also unusual combat/athletic abilities chase clues to unravel some major sexy archeological mystery, find treasure, but at the end discover it's about the friends and family you make/rediscover along the way" formula almost always makes for fun movies, but most are very forgettable. Few can be Indiana Jones. This is one I enjoyed and immediately forgot about.

This movie lost me with the choppers impossibly pulling the old boats up and flying them around.

When the only funny scene in an uncharted film is when Sully enters a Papa Jones, you know you reached a new low.

Instead of wasting 10 bucks and two hours of my time, I'll just stay home and rewatch the excellent short film with Nathan Fillion.

I think this could've been something as big and memorable as the Original Indiana Jones trilogy, but we can't ever have anything nice

"Uncharted - How Could They Mess This Up?" Modern Hollywood: without even breaking a sweat.

Drinker, how could you not address the biggest issue: The leader of the mercs has cup noodle on her head the entire film

*Video game series with great storytelling exists* Hollyweird: "I'm about to do what is called a power move."

Gonna watch part of this movie only for those old sailing ships. Always like them since pirates of the caribbean

Wow, those are some powerful helicopters!

When you pointed out how Wahlberg basically always plays himself I had a little dejavu to red notice(probably because you mentioned it like a minute earlier) which also has 3 actors, Johnson, Raynolds and Gadot, that also pretty much only play themselves independent of what character they're supposed to be. Then I started thinking about how prevalent this has become for modern movies. I mean think about it, the last decades there's been a slow but steady increase in actors that basically only have one persona they're able to bring to the screen, pretty much being the equivalent of a one trick pony. Now I could be wrong, but I think this might perhaps be a nice topic for you to cover especially given your style of presentation and the way you dissect movies.

Nathan Fillion was the perfect fit for the role. The fans wants him.HE wanted it.He even made a well made fan film playing Drake..Yet no they had to cast a man who looks 12. I will never understand how they could pass over Nathan for an overgrown school boy.

0:58 To be honest the Mario Bros. , Street Fighter and Double Dragon are fun to watch and can give somme good 90's vibes

"Too old for one and too young for the other..." - This sums up my life from about the age of 31 up to my current age of 46... 😥

I love that Hollywood is so woke and concerned with diversity, and yet ageism is still rampant in the industry. When will they learn that just because their core demographic is 18-34 years old, that doesn't mean you have to *cast* only people in that age range. Most of my favorite actors have been well outside that age range, both younger and older. Hollywood just sucks.

They should've casted Bruce Campbell as Sully - he really owned his character in Burn Notice.

I had to wonder during most of the action scenes if Nate had Peter's powers. I never played the games, but other than having some fun while watching some of the scenes, I had to wonder about physics and logic in this movie.

i have never heard of uncharted until the movie and decided to watch a summary of the game and let me tell you *hollywood messed up here*

I can't see how anyone still had hopes for this movie once the cast was announced. I would've been shocked if this turned out good.

A case for "don't fix what is not broken" Looks like a mashup of Uncharted 3 and 4 that attempted to mix the best from both but ended up taking the worst (and perhaps downgrading it a bit) You can actually find "uncharted game movie" composed from cutscenes and short bits of gameplay for every part from 1 to 4 and the one for the fourth game looks already like something you could run in cinemas)

Had the same feeling with Max Payne, something absolutely ready for the screen, and they decide to mangle it for no reason and end up appealing to no one. And you got Marky Mark yet again lol. Why do they feel the need to change from the source material so much it's nearly unrecognizable? I'll never understand

I've been looking for something to laugh at all day. Thanks 🤣🤣🤣🍿🍿🍿🍿

"Calling Mark Wahlberg an actor is like calling someone who breaks into a brisk jog to catch a train an athlete." (Or something to that effect) I died laughing. Literally, no one is surprised by the shitshow that this film is. You're right, as soon as it was cast, it was like WELP, guess I won't be seeing that.

Diverse character antagonist used gorilla glue for styling gel. That's what I first thought when I saw her.

Honestly speaking as a hardcore uncharted lover here are the things that went wrong for me- 1. Cast of the movie- the cast seems really out of place example - [Tom Holland as Nathan Drake, Sully as Mark Wahlberg] 2. Charaterics of the character- I'm pretty sure Sully, Chole, Tom, etc, these personality roles are not even remotely close, to that of the Uncharted series [really painful to sully in the movie so untrustworthy personality] 3. Sully's mustache- Sully is known for his legendary moustache, and in the movie is no mustache on sully's face 4. The story- The story seems out of place, If you have played the uncharted game then you would notice that story is odd. It is not meant to be like this !!!! [I meant to say the theme is not barely similar] 5. Plot Twist- The plot twist is awfully weird, Braddock kills her partner and takes control. [Nadine on the other had done similarly by not killing him, but instead letting him die on the ship. But there was a reason she was disgusted to see the greed of the people with Avery's treasure. She came to her sense that he is not a good partner], Braddock was obsessed with the treasure and wants full of it. Let me know what were the things that went wrong *I think the movie was wrong*

For me, what ruined the movie was the rushed pacing of the mystery. For an adventure movie of puzzles and discovery, it tries to cover so much ground of puzzles and clues without really letting the viewers and characters to engage with the mystery: everything just goes way to easily for them every time they need to discover a piece of the puzzle. These types of movies are supposed to hook you in and make your brain think hard about the mystery and the story behind it. In this movie, it felt like they were filling a check list just to get on to the next clue. Well, that and also the plot armor that ingulfs Nate and prevented him from even getting a scratch from hits that would knock out anyone else.

Had very low expectations for this movie, and they were truly justified. But at least we get a Drinker review out if it, so there’s that silver lining.

It sure was interesting how the only major firefight here was between the two female leads. In the movie adaptation of a third person shooter/treasure hunt game. Truly brave and stunning.

I haven't played the games extensively, but a ways back I thought about who I would cast in an adaptation. My choice for Sully? Bruce Campbell.

SSMB29 will do justice to Uncharted and Indiana Jones 5 Dial of Destiny.

Even in Jojo at least the 17 year olds aren’t in charge of the expedition. Kujo plays his role as the muscle of the group but the travel plans are generally made by the wealthy, world seasoned, well connected Joseph. Holland is an awesome actor but he looks too young to convey any meaningful life experience without setting up his character extensively. Which doesn’t work here because he’s supposed to be one half of a duo of hardened criminals past their early thirties.

As always, Mark Wahlberg does a good impression of Mark Wahlberg.

The Goonies felt more Uncharted than this film. Wallberg was a poor choice for the characters Sully and the Nathan was played by a kid. This film is a mess.