![]() ![]() I thought that was a really good adaptation of the rebooted video game franchise, and I think Walton Goggins’s Mathias Vogel was a far more interesting villain than any of Uncharted’s bad guys. It’s interesting that 2018’s Tomb Raider reboot scored so evenly among critics and audiences, with the former at 52% and the latter at 55% on Rotten Tomatoes. I think a “B+” is about right, though grading on a “video game adaptation” curve I’d go a bit higher.Ī fun, rollicking adventure flick with likable protagonists, fun puzzles and big set-pieces-what’s not to love? Isn’t that basically the gist of the games? I think I went in with pretty low expectations, and ended up being pleasantly surprised. All that culture war nonsense that plagued the first Ghostbusters reboot carried over to this one, and more’s the pity.Īgain, I’m not going to say that Uncharted was the perfect movie, but as far as video game adaptations go it was a solid effort, and felt very true to the games. Some critics still seemed angry that the all-female Ghostbusters didn’t make a splash, and viewed the new picture as revanchist (in ways it really wasn’t at all). When I wrote about Ghostbusters: Afterlife for this very reason, I touched on this same question. I have noticed, in the past, certain ideological bents to these wildly disparate critic and audience scores. I wondered if we’d see any commentary on the fact that two white dudes were the heroes of the story while a Latin guy and a black chick were the villains-but I haven’t seen any so far, so that’s good! I think it’s great to see a diverse cast, regardless of who plays the hero and who plays the villain ( which is also why I’m not swayed by arguments that movies like Black Widow are somehow anti-male). Others called it an “Indiana Jones wannabee” which, well, yeah that’s kind of the point. Some critics who were fans of the games thought it didn’t live up to the source material, which is fair enough, though I think it’s pretty hard to adapt a video game and this one has more faithfully than most. But the critical reception is almost identical to Uncharted.Īctually, there’s not much to report about the why behind critics’ distaste for this film. ![]() Viewers are not as happy with that one as they are Uncharted, though still generally more positive than critics. The action-disaster film Moonfall, for instance, received a 38% critic score on RT, with a 70% audience score-and a C+ Cinema Score (which is based on polling audiences directly as they leave theaters). The movie’s Cinema Score rating is “B+” which, while not as good as an “A” obviously, is still well above what we’d expect from such a Rotten tomato. Just 40% of critics give Uncharted a passing grade, while 90% of viewers enjoyed the film. The Critics Must Be CrazyĬritics are wrong about Tom Holland's 'Uncharted' Credit: Rotten TomatoesĪs you can see, I am in the minority of critics on this one-but well within the majority when it comes to the audience reaction. I’ll have more to say about that in a separate piece. It also did two things better than the games: Not as much climbing and not as much shooting. It’s not a perfect movie, no doubt, with perhaps a bit too much reliance on CGI and incompetent bad guys, but overall I enjoyed it a great deal. Also, any critic worth their salt should remember that the pedestal we place classic films on is one bulwarked by nostalgia.Ī child who grows up on Holland’s Uncharted may look back on it with the same fondness I look back on The Last Crusade (though how can you beat Harrison Ford and Sean Connery as Indiana and his father?) The movie has clearly been set up with a sequel in mind, and I can imagine it growing into its own shoes, so to speak. To be fair, I’m not sure I’d place Uncharted the movie on the same pedestal as Indiana Jones or The Goonies, but then again this is just the first outing in what I hope becomes a new movie franchise. I always ask myself, “What kind of pirate buries their treasure and then concocts all these incredibly meticulous, over-the-top puzzles and booby-traps just to find the map?” It’s absurd but in a fun, engrossing way-just like the games, which themselves are based off of Indiana Jones and The Goonies and other similar adventure stories, all of which I also love. It’s a pitch-perfect rendition of the many absurd puzzles we encounter in the games. One thing I think the film does incredibly well is capture the spirit of puzzle-solving and tomb-raiding that the Uncharted game franchise is known for. ![]()
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