Tom Holland has been Sony’s golden child since his role as Peter Parker in the MCU, so you can see why they’d position him as the face of another hypothetical hit movie franchise. He’s one of the most recognizable young action stars of the past decade, so if they’re trying to turn Uncharted’s Nathan Drake into an iconic movie hero to match his video game status, there are worse picks than Holland. However, where the Uncharted movie falls short isn’t with Holland as Drake, it’s with Mark Wahlberg as Victor “Sully” Sullivan. Where Holland tried his best to capture the swashbuckling spirit of Drake, Wahlberg is playing a character who is wholly unrecognizable from the likable, charismatic father figure that fans know and love. Instead, we get a paranoid bastard who just happens to have his name. The film superficially believes what makes the Uncharted games successful is solely in its big action scenes, several of which it pays homage to like it’s grafting on the best moments of each game into one Frankensteined storyline. As such, it’s content to hand you a bastardized version of the real heart at the center: Nathan Drake’s relationships with the people who follow him to hell and back. — Kenneth Shepard
