Uncharted

 

Ruben Fleischer puts Tom Holland's million-dollar affability to work in the actioner Uncharted, a fairly diverting film based on a popular hidden-treasure game.

Holland -- whose net worth, at age 25, is estimated to be just south of $20 million -- is treasure hunter Nathan Drake, a bartender and "smooth criminal" who inherited his brother's fascination with a fortune hidden by Ferdinand Magellan's crew at some point during their voyage in the 16th century.

Drake is recruited by an older and fundamentally untrustworthy treasure-seeker named Sully (Mark Wahlberg), who claims to be a friend of Drake's brother, Sam, (played as a youth by Rudy Pankow). Sully convinces Drake that he has uncovered important clues to the Magellan gold and needs the younger man to help him find and recover it.

Standing between the two fortune hunters are bad agents, killers and false friends (Antonio Banderas, Tati Gabrielle and Sophia Ali, respectively), and the whole crew globe-trots through increasingly outrageous set pieces following cryptic clues left by the pirates. These breathless scenes -- which are actually the sole reason to see the picture -- are well-staged but in the end feel a bit done.