What A Hardcore Uncharted Fan Thinks Of The Uncharted Movie

4. The Flying Ships Finale Is One Of The Best Uncharted Action Scenes EVER

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When people think of the Uncharted games, they think of their over-the-top action scenes. The train level in Among Thieves. The sinking ship in Drake's Deception. That bonkers vehicle chase through Madagascar in A Thief's End.

And while most of the movie's action won't exactly blow your socks off, it does contain two standout sequences: the cargo plane fight, and the pirate ship battle.

While the former was cribbed from Uncharted 3, the latter is a new concept for the movie, and oh boy, it's a bloody good one.

The ships crashing into each other, enemy goons swinging across on grappling hooks, Nate kicking his foes over the edge, that perfectly-aimed cannon shot... it's got that signature Uncharted ridiculousness but it never veers into dumb territory, like some of the facepalm-worthy stuff we saw in F9 last year.

In short, the sequence capably stands toe-to-toe with some of the best action from the games, and when you take my previous praise of this finale into account, the final part of the movie is worth buying a ticket for.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!