Uncharted’s road to gold is plagued by its bros

Mark Wahlberg as Sully and Tom Holland as Nathan Drake.

Sony Pictures

Columbia Pictures’ new _Uncharted_movie from Venomdirector Ruben Fleischer is a testament to the idea that the longer much-buzzed-about adaptations of beloved franchises linger in development hell, the more likely they are to emerge from it — that is if they ever do — as warped misfires that might have been better kept in the drafts. _Uncharted_isn’t the first movie this is true of. But unlike so many other adaptations in this class, which tend to feel hamstrung by a lack of understanding of what people like about the source material, you do get the sense watching _Uncharted_that everyone involved vaguely “gets” what all the fuss is meant to be about. _Uncharted_knows what it’s supposed to be — the problem’s that it is profoundly...