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Uncharted (2022)
Not Great, but Enjoyable
If you take Uncharted as a stand-alone movie it was an enjoyable enough action adventure treasure hunt story. But when comparing the movie to the video game franchise it really doesn't hold much water.
The action was fun to watch, the plot was pretty decent, and it was a good treasure hunt style movie. Unfortunately, Uncharted was always more than that as a video game, there was depth to characters, deep historical background (tied into the game and not real life), and intricate puzzles that made the game so compelling. You don't really have much of that in this Uncharted movie.
I thought Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg did a fine job playing a duo of con-men in search of a treasure, but really didn't capture the characters they were portraying. Wahlberg as Sully was very disappointing, again he did a fine job in the movie, but he was nothing like the character he was portraying. Holland was a little closer in his portrayal of Nathan Drake than Wahlberg was in his portrayal of Sully, but it still felt short for me and played as a generic character in a generic action movie.
Clickbait (2021)
Great first 7 episodes
The first 7 episodes out of this 8 episode series were honestly pretty good and kept me interested throughout with different twists and turns that took place. Episode 8 however is where things took a turn for the worse. The final twist in the plot that is revealed in episode 8 was totally off the wall crazy and not in a good way. I think the writers wanted to give the audience something that wouldn't be guessed maybe? But it just didn't play well at all with the where the story had gone and really ruined what could have been a great show from start to finish.
It may have been more basic, but I think it made more sense with where the story had gone to make Matt the person behind the catfishing and ultimately the one who killed Nick. But that's just me I guess.