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Draackje says...

12 years ago

Now this is your typical I-don't-have-anything-better-to-do-tonight-so-let's-just-watch-this movie. Everything about it is average: the story, the acting, the music etc. It does have a feelgood vibe about it, with suntanned people running around on yachts and beaches, so it makes for some decent entertainment.

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KainSir says...

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4 years ago

The thing that bothered me was the fact that the treasure hunting wasn't the main focus of the movie despite so much buildup, including the summary and trailer for the movie. The discovery of the wreck was both unexciting and you don't get a clear reason for what happened to it. The movie ends with a lot of questions left unanswered and the second story point, [spoiler]the poisoned water[/spoiler], greatly overshadows the shipwreck. If they had stuck with one or the other it would have been a good movie.

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PorterUk says...

2 years ago

Let's reassess this film shall we?

Rather than thinking of it in the vein of Indiana Jones, let's see it for what it really was... The genesis of the 'Uncharted' video game series.

And to anyone who just watched that film with a pleasant Tom Holland and a limp Mark Wahlberg, then you need to watch this instead.

This is the closest you'll get to a true "Nathan Drake" if it took 15 years to bring Uncharted to our screens.

Little did we know that the best Uncharted film had been made 2 years before the game.

Practical effects, a swashbuckling soundtrack, humour, locations... It has them all. The plot could be a little tighter and Penelope Cruz's accent could be a little less one-dimensional but they're by the by...

This film deserves reappraising.

7.5/10

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Reply by robinm0

3 months ago

@porteruk I agree that it's not anything like as bad as most critics' ratings make it out to be. It helps if you have read the Clive Cussler original and can bring that sense of detachment from reality from the book that the story demands. The soundtrack in particular is very good, especially the matching of the title sequence to Dr John. Well worth another look. Much, much better than 'Raise the Titanic', an earlier attempt to bring Dirk Pitt to the screen.

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