Film Shapes

Coming at this film from a non-gamer perspective, I was (and am) only superficially aware of the base IP that spawned it. Probably, this freed me from any quibbles others might have about casting or characterisation or dialogue or anything else that particular subculture could get exercised about. But, that's a double edged sword, in that I had to google some stuff like; who that dude on the beach was; what Pilou Asbæk's doing at the end; and is that character supposed to be Aussie or Kiwi or Pom, or some kind of Commonwealth amalgam? Answers on the back of a postcard. As a palate cleanser of sheer dumb-arsed frippery, Uncharted ticks all the boxes. It's reasonably short for this kind of blockbuster (at a touch under 2 hours), the leads, Tom Holland and Marky Mark Wahlberg, seem to be having a right old giggle, there are some passable parkour snatches (making use of Holland's Spidery fleet-footedness), and the final helicopter/ship transport sequence is pretty mint. An...