Starring: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Tati Gabrielle, Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali, Steven Waddington Director: Ruben Fleischer TOM HOLLAND and Mark Wahlberg play treasure hunters on a journey to find a lost fleet of Spanish gold in “Uncharted,” a new adaptation of the popular video game franchise exclusive to Sony Playstation. “Uncharted” is breezy lightweight fun for a good hour, mixing “Indiana Jones”-style adventure and “Ocean’s 11”-like heists, but sags after a lengthy midsection in Barcelona and never quite recovers. The film stars Holland as globe-trotting, history-obsessed treasure hunter Nathan Drake and Wahlberg as Victor “Sully” Sullivan, Nathan’s shady mentor. The film deviates from the video games in a number of ways, being an origin story featuring younger versions of the beloved characters. And if you’re thinking that Wahlberg once would have been a great choice to play Nathan himself, you’re not alone. The film has been in development for so many years that he was formerly attached to play the role until he eventually aged out of it. Resembling the love child of “Tomb Raider,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “National Treasure,” “Uncharted” definitely feels like a video game adaptation, so rapidly segueing from one elaborate action set piece to another that your fingers may start twitching while watching it. Director Ruben Fleischer knows his way around this sort of material, having previously helmed such movies as “Venom” and “Zombieland,” and he understands that the target audience isn’t particularly interested in deep characterizations or sophisticated dialogue. Still, it would have been nice if screenwriters Rafe Lee Judkins, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway had come up with something more interesting than this generic adventure in which Nate and Sully team up to first commit a robbery at a high-end auction house and then head to exotic locales in search of Ferdinand Magellan’s lost treasure of gold. Or more interesting villains than the ruthless Santiago Moncada, played by Antonio Banderas in a performance that can best be described as detached. Or wittier exchanges than Sully constantly teasing Nate about his gum-chewing and Nate responding in kind about Sully’s habit of leaving too many open apps on his cell phone. More problematically, Nate and Sully, mutually supportive in the games, here come across like a bickering couple on the verge of divorce. Wahlberg’s Sully looks and behaves disgruntled so much of the time that you begin to wonder how these two went on to form a long-running partnership. The film features plenty of photogenic real-life locations and some genuinely exciting action sequences, including the aforementioned airplane scene — which opens the film and is reprized later on — and a breathless battle involving airborne 16th-century sailing ships. Refreshingly, it’s the female characters who are the most badass. Sully’s longtime treasure hunting associate Chloe Frazer (a charismatic Sophie Ali) more than keeps up with the guys when it comes to physical derring-do, and Moncado’s blade-wielding henchwoman Braddock (Tati Gabrielle, fearsome) is a homicidal villainess who could give James Bond a run for his money. You can’t say that the makers of “Uncharted” lack confidence, since the film ends with the sort of cliffhanger that basically promises a sequel. It’s a bold move, considering the number of video game film adaptations that have crashed and burned, but with the charismatic Holland as its star, it just may pay off. The movie is now being screened in Shenzhen. (SD-Agencies) | 