Uncharted
UNCHARTED. Ruben Fleischer, director, executive producer (one of many). Rafe Lee Judkins, Art Marcum, and Matt Holloway, script; Rafe Judkins, Jon Hanley Rosenberg, and Mark D. Walker (story). USA, Spain: Columbia Pictures, PlayStation Productions, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Naughty Dog ("Made game story"), et al. (production) / Columbia Pictures (USA theatrical release), Sony Pictures Releasing Canada (Canada theatrical release), 2022. See IMDb for production and distribution details, at link here.[1] Shepherd Frankel, production design. See IMDb for full credits (here).[2]
Not SF. Classified on IMDb under Action / Adventure, and could be seen as THE DA VINCI CODE crossed with an Indiana-Jones sequel and well aware that it's an expensive telling of a silly story.
IMDb "Storyline" (which is close enough)
Street-smart Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan and lost 500 years ago by the House of Moncada. What starts as a heist job for the duo becomes a globe-trotting, white-knuckle race to reach the prize before the ruthless Santiago Moncada (Antonio Banderas), who believes he and his family are the rightful heirs. If Nate and Sully can decipher the clues and solve one of the world's oldest mysteries, they stand to find $5 billion in treasure and perhaps even Nate's long-lost brother...but only if they can learn to work together.[3]
Relevant here for having been developed from a video game series, Uncharted,[4] and for at least one striking image. Near the end of the movie, two ships from the Magellan voyage — remarkably well preserved — are lifted, one apiece, by two helicopters that look like military versions of S-64 Skycranes by Sikorsky Aircraft.[5][6] The image of Early-Modern ships in-frame with what might be called "brutalist-postmodern" helicopters hints at what might be called "sailpunk" (but that would be pushing the point).
Note also the motif (or schtick) from the Indiana Jones subgenre — and its serial precursors — of clever deadly devices based on earlier technologies, necessarily mechanical.
RDE, finishing, 24Feb22