The 13 Worst Video Game Movies Ever Made

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Sony Pictures Entertainment

Tom Holland has been Sony’s golden boy since his time as Peter Parker in the MCU, so you can see why they’re positioning him as the face of another hypothetical blockbuster franchise. He’s one of the most recognizable newborn action stars of the last decade, so if they’re trying to change UnchartedNathan Drake has become a cult movie hero that has matched his status in video games, there are worse choices than Holland. But where Uncharted The film fails not with Holland as Drake, but with Mark Wahlberg as Victor “Sully” Sullivan. While Holland did his best to capture Drake’s adventurous spirit, Wahlberg plays a character who is completely unrecognizable from the lovable, charismatic father figure fans know and love. Instead, we get a paranoid jerk who simply has his name. The film superficially believes in what makes Uncharted the games success relies solely on the gigantic action scenes, several of which pay homage, as if transplanting the best moments of each game into a single Frankenstein plot. As such, it contented itself with handing you a distorted version of the real heart at its center: Nathan Drake’s relationship with the people who follow him to hell and back. — Kenneth Shepard

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