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On the one hand, its a movie positivelyfilledwith dimly lit, cobweb-covered secret passages.
Thats not an unpromising setup: Everybodys a thief, and they all distrust one another.
Maybe its a video-game thing.
Each scene inUnchartedseems to wipe clean the memory of the previous one.
Were told our heroes are brilliant, but thats not really reflected in any of their banter.
(Holy shit seems to be the go-to exclamation.)
Nobody ever seems to use their wits, just the objects they possess.
Maybe such disconnects happen because the film is obsessed with forward momentum.
And it does bounce along fairly well;Unchartedis nothing if not fast.
Alas, the movie rarely builds any real menace, so any excitement it might generate dissipates rather quickly.
There are two notable exceptions to the pictures general sense of competent, corporate anonymity.
Its intricate, exciting, even surprising; the whole movie might be worth it for that sequence alone.
