10 Exact Moments Recent Movies Lost Us

The Uncharted movie may not be completely terrible for the subterranean standards of most video game adaptations, but it's not a good movie.

A big part of the problem is the casting, and while Tom Holland isn't great as Nathan Drake, his casting still makes a hell of a lot more sense than hiring Mark Wahlberg to portray his mentor Sully.

There's not a moment in this film where Mark Wahlberg feels like he's doing anything but playing Mark Wahlberg - not even when a fake mustache is slapped on his lip during the post-credits scene.

From his very first scene, it's clear that Wahlberg isn't making any effort at all to actually inhabit the video game Sully, but instead bending the character to the same, generic action hero archetype he plays every damn time.

It's clear that Wahlberg was cast for cynical commercial reasons, being a box office draw and all, rather than because he was remotely well-suited to play a younger version of Sully.

Given the many capable actors who could've surely embodied Sully with real gusto - Nathan Fillion, anyone? - his phoned-in presence throughout helps sink the entire enterprise.