The Never-Ending Quest to Make a Great Video-Game Movie
<em>Uncharted</em>, starring Tom Holland, is a disappointingly derivative adaptation of a franchise that was already intentionally derivative.
Play just a few minutes of any Uncharted video game, and the basic concept becomes clear: What if you could be the main character in a blockbuster action-adventure film? Embodied by the dashing treasure hunter Nathan Drake, the player leaps from boulder to boulder, explores ancient ruins, and exchanges gunfire with evil mercenaries in a modern update on . The series is so obviously indebted to the storytelling rhythms of movies that, about a year after the game’s 2007 release, . But how to keep the
