What made the games so fantastic was the characters and their relationships with eachother. People loved and were invested with Nate, Sully and Elena, that's why they watched. It was different than any other treasure hunting piece of media
the movie completely lost that. They were focused more on the action that they replaced all the heart and wit that developed these characters in the game with quirky one-liners that aren't nearly as funny as in the games.
It's fine as an action movie, but as an adaption it falls short. I know it was a prequel to the games but they changed almost all of when we previously knew about Nates life before the events of the first game (how/when he met sully, what happened to sam, how he got the necklace, how/when he met chloe) so why even bother making a movie adaption of the game? Just make an action movie - the cutscenes in the game are already a flawless movie when put together.
I think Tom Holland did a good job, but I never really bought him as Nate. Sully was a completely different character, and their father-son dynamic doesn't appear until the last 10 minutes of the movie. I think changing the fact of Nate meeting Sully in Columbia while trying to steal Sir Francis' ring (which in the film he got from Sam ??) and saving him from Katherines goons to him just showing up at a bar saying "i knew your brother" (Nates a bartender and Sully is "friends" with Sam in the movie ??) was a huge mistake and ultimately ruined their father-son dynamic before it began.
In short, it's an extremely forgettable film. The only reason it's getting 10's here is bc Tom Holland stans are positive-bombing it.
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