UNCHARTED Ending Explained | Full Movie Breakdown, Easter Eggs, Post Credits Scene & Spoiler Review

Ok so Uncharted is now out in the UK and the movie brings Nathan Drake and Victor Sullivan to the screen in a big bad way. I’m aware that the movie isn’t out in the US yet so if you wanna learn our spoiler-free thoughts on it then time codes will be linked below. The end of the video should give you our general thoughts without going into too much detail but from here on out its full spoilers ahead.

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Ok so though Uncharted isn’t a direct adaptation of the games, it does cherry-pick certain parts of them. Like we learned in the fourth game, Nate grew up with his brother Sam in an orphanage overseen by Nuns. Told that they were direct descendants of Sir Francis Drake the pair became fascinated with history. After a run-in with the police Sam ended up being a naughty dog and he ran away from the Orphanage. However, he left behind a ring which belonged to Drake that I’m sure you’ll recognise from the games. This plays heavily into the post-credits scene which we’ll talk about later on in the video and how that sets up a sequel.

Nate spent 15 years on his own in New York, making a living through Bartending whilst also pick-pocketing on the side.

Well, you’ve got to pick a pocket or two.

When Nate met Sully

One fateful night he meets Victor Sullivan an old friend of Sams who’d worked with him in trying to track down the Magellan Fortune. This is the largest amount of undiscovered gold in the world and the key to finding it lies in two crucifix keys. Sully initially tells Drake that they can help find his brother but it’s revealed in the film that Victor actually believes that Sam is dead and he’s just really using Nate. Sam used to write postcards to Nate all the time and Sully believes that there’s a secret he told him which will help uncover the fortune.

Much like the original game, Nate kinda goes back and forth over whether he should trust Sully or not and at several points, the side characters say he must ask what really happened.

Now the pair set off to uncover the mystery of where the treasure is buried and there are several key scenes that riff directly on the source material. The first crucifix is held at an auction and this somewhat pulls from the level in the fourth game titled once a thief. Much like the original title, Nate is tasked with cutting the power and it’s here that he meets the two main antagonists of the movie.

The first is Moncada, a wealthy treasure hunter who’s angered by his father’s insistence that they give away their fortune because of the blood that was shed when making it. Obsessed with uncovering the Magellan Gold he hires two people to track this down, the first of these being Joe Braddock.

Now she’s a completely original character for the franchise but she’s heavily based on Nadine who also appeared in the fourth entry. Braddock is a cold-blooded mercenary that’s completely ruthless and not only has she got up close and personal with Sully, it’s also believed that she killed Sam.

Now the other person that Moncada hired is Chloe Fraizer, a femme fatale from the games who was first introduced in Uncharted 2. Chloe is completely distrustful of everyone and this is because when she was growing up she found a platinum trophy that her dad took and ran off with for the clout.

Ey those Playstation games were hard.

Initially, she joins Nate and Sully in Barcelona but after they uncover a map of the whereabouts of the gold, she ends up stealing it and going back to Moncada. As they ascend into the sky Braddock reveals her true plan and ends up killing Moncada and just before she can put an end to Chloe we get the awesome plane scene from the third game. I was lucky enough to see the film in IMAX and this entire part completely blew me away. It really felt like they’d perfectly captured the games and there are several iconic things from it such as the cargo crates that Nate has to climb up. During this time Sully parachutes away and Chloe ends up driving Moncada’s car off the plane in order to escape.

Voice Actor Makes an Appearance

Now in the original game, Nate ended up catching up to one of the crates and he used the parachute on it to slow his fall. Here though he goes to the car, gets Chloe and then the pair drop together before they swim to a resort on one of the neighbouring islands.

You might recognise one of the guests here as being Nolan North who voiced Nathan in the game series. He even makes a joke about how he fell out of a plane once too and it’s one of my favourite cameos in a thing well ever.

Pouring over the maps, Nate realises that his brother wrote messages to him in the postcards in invisible ink. Using his lighter he manages to uncover them and this item actually popped up at several points during the fourth game. Sam was somewhat retroactively added into the lore but I do appreciate that they just hit the ground running with him here and showed him at the earliest possible opportunity. I never really liked how he was kinda crowbarred into the franchise and when you think about it Chloe was too.

She appeared in the second one with us being told that she and Drake had history but like with Sam, we see that play out in chronological order. This is very much the same with Elena who is completely missing from this movie and we know from the game timeline that Nate doesn’t meet her until long after he’s met, Chloe.

Now the postcards point Nate to where the treasure is buried and he somewhat leaves a test for Chloe to see whether she will work with him or ditch him at the first available opportunity. She fails and thus Drake heads off on his own. These moments on the speedboat feel like they’re ripped directly from a Thiefs End and the climax of the movie takes place at a similar location to how that entry wrapped up.

The fortune is held within two ships hidden within a cavern and a lot of the iconography of the approach to them is taken completely from the fourth game.

Sully reveals he’s been tracking him the entire time and after Nadine and her gang arrive there it all goes down. Using helicopters they pull the ships into the air and it somewhat also plays upon the finale of the first game in which Nate flies through the sky whilst hanging off some treasure.

Sadly what’s missing from the movie are the more supernatural elements that tended to come as the games drew to a close.

I remember I did Nat-see the big zombie twist at the end of the first movie and I know that the fan community is kinda divided on whether the monsters that tended to appear at the end are good or not. I was always fine on em but they did try and drift away from doing more supernatural things because the games weren’t really designed for creatures that just flanked you.

Whether that will appear in the sequel we don’t know but after a chase through the sky Nate ends up getting the upper hand and he uses a canon and Sam’s lighter to bring down Braddock’s forces.

Leaving just her and Nate hanging off the ship, Sully has to decide whether the gold means more to him than Nate and he ends up choosing the latter.

He ends up dropping it on Braddock who falls into the ocean and then the ship drops on her head. Canoe believe it, should’ve given her a stern talking to.

Ey.

Diving For Gold

Now Sully grabbing Nate’s hand is somewhat mirrored in the opening of the movie when Sam did the same thing during his introduction. Nate also offers Sully the last of his gum which he wastes and this mirrors an interaction that Nathan had with his brother when they were kids.

Though Nate managed to salvage some Gold it won’t be enough to count for the billions that Sully was expecting but the real Uncharted was the friends we made along the way.

Nate suggests diving for it and in the fourth game, we opened with him doing this though there was a bit of a funny reveal when it turned out he wasn’t hunting for treasure.

They fly off into the sunset with Chloe missing out and that takes us into our first post-credits scene which drops immediately after the title.

In an undisclosed jail cell, we find that Sam is still alive. He writes a postcard to his brother saying that he has to watch his back and this somewhat ties into the scene that follows it. Sam is played by Rudy Pankow and I believe that the second film will have him reuniting with his brother.

In the fourth game, we actually had a prison escape level involving Drake and his brother which could end up popping up next time. If we are going off the games then this is Panama and he’s been sending these postcards out to show Nate that he hasn’t died. Someone is clearly stopping these postcards from getting out though and it’ll be interesting to see if they bring in Hector Alcazar in order for him to escape.

Now Sam wants to give his brother a warning more than anything and this likely ties in with Gabriel Roman who gets his name-dropped in the second post-credits scene. This moment was actually shown in trailers and it was revealed that Sully now has his moustache.

Here we meet Pilou Asbaek’s Gage who is working for Roman and similar to the villain he wears all white. In case you don’t know, Roman is the villain from the first game and he ended up looking for El-dorado which turned out to be a giant gold sarcophagus.

Inside of it was a mummified corpse that turned all who came into contact with it into flesh-hungry zombies. The Germans in World War 2 actually managed to uncover it and this transformed the entire unit on the island into the undead.

Everyone was completely unaware of this and they thought it was just gold but it turned out to be far more sinister. The second scene has a discussion about a map in it that was used by the Germans and it’s likely setting up the events of the first entry. Both the pair look a lot closer to how they do in the games and Sully even gets a cigar whilst Nate has one of his classic T-shirts.

This moment revolves highly around trying to buy Nates ring which is also riffing on the scene that opened up the third game.

Sully and Drake escape the bar only to be stopped dead in their tracks and who this could be we don’t know. Potentially it’s Eddy Raja and as there is a gold gun that’s used in this scene it could be hinting towards him.

All in all, we don’t know but I am excited to see what they do next time.

Uncharted a Fun Ride

Now that kinda takes me into the review section of the video and though it’s getting hated on I actually quite liked the movie. I’m a big uncharted fan and even bought a PSP just to play Golden Abyss. I think that they made the best Uncharted movie that they could make for a first outing and though it does have some issues, I think overall it’s still a fun ride.

I’m someone who completely hated the casting when it was first announced and the trailers didn’t really do much to change my mind.

When the movie first opened on the plane scene and Holland started off I cringed a bit and just thought that they’d completely dropped the ball in terms of getting the actors right. However, as the movie went on, I actually thought that he grew into the role and come to the end of it I think that both Holland and Wahlberg managed to just fall into place really well together. They’ve got some good back and forth and the movie does a good job of recapturing the exploration scenes where characters just walk about and have conversations.

They also do the spectacles really well and the plane scene is exactly as good as you’d expect it to be.

Though Antonio Banderas does get underused I think that Braddock is quite a good villain but I do wish that we learned more about her history and got flashes of her attempting to kill Sam. The movie is pretty by the numbers and if you’ve played any of the games you’ll see the plot points coming a mile off. They of course took heavily from Indiana Jones and this movie even name drops him to let you know that it’s ribbing from the iconic archaeologist too.

Perhaps that’s why they avoided bringing up the Nazis in this one as it would lead to more comparisons but out of all the Indy clones, I think this one ranks nearer the top. I think I prefer it a lot more than Tomb Raider and though it doesn’t get everything right, it gets enough.

What I’m saying is, is that this movie is fine, it’s not gonna break the internet but it’s also not bad and it handles everything it tries to do quite well.

As a fan of the game, I think they adapted the source material really well and didn’t drop the ball on any of the action.

Overall Uncharted was a fun ride and it gets a…

7/10