[FILM]
UNCHARTED
An original plot-twist hoves into view.
★★
OUT NOW CERT 12A / 116 MINS
DIRECTOR Ruben Fleischer
CAST Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali
PLOT When orphaned bartender Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) learns that his long-lost brother has been on the trail of equally long-lost treasure, he teams up with grouchy mercenary Sully (Mark Wahlberg) to find both. Cue much running, shooting and jumping.
BACK IN 2011, for a promotional video, Harrison Ford sat down to play the third video game in the Uncharted series. “Fantastic. Oh, incredible,” said the star, as he hammered the X button with his thumb. “So cinematic.” It was a publicity coup — the actual Indiana Jones stepping into the pixelly shoes of his gaming equivalent, Nathan Drake. It was yet more evidence that Uncharted —a brilliantly executed PlayStation adventure franchise which is, yes, cinematic as hell — was destined to become a film series, too. But the ad also hinted strongly at the biggest problem facing anyone daring to take Drake to the big screen: the shadow of Spielberg ’s Indy films, the gold standard for movies about treasurehunters dodging dusty booby-traps and falling out of planes.