Set in an Alternate Continuity from the games, the film follows Nathan Drake, a bartender and pick-pocket, who teams up with seasoned treasure hunters Victor Sullivan and Chloe Frazer, to pull off a heist that could make them rich beyond their wildest dreams and give Drake information about his missing brother Sam.
Tom Holland stars as Nathan "Nate" Drake, alongside Mark Wahlberg as Victor "Sully" Sullivan, Sophia Ali as Chloe Frazer, Tati Gabrielle as Jo Braddock, and Antonio Banderas as Santiago Moncada.
The film released exclusively in theaters on February 18, 2022.
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- Adaptational Early Appearance:
- Chloe Frazer first appeared in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and chronologically first met Nate in the Uncharted comics, set before the first game. In the film, she meets Nate when he's younger and had just met Sully for the first time.
- Sam also makes an early appearance compared to the games where he wasn't even mentioned until Uncharted 4: A Thief's End.
- Adaptational Jerkass:
- Compared to his video-game counterpart, Sully is a lot more abrasive and manipulative towards Nate. Their first heist together to steal the cross has Sully leave Nate to handle the mess on his own once he's got the cross, and is more focused on finding the gold than anything else. There's also the fact that he left Nate's brother Sam for dead after a confrontation with Jo two years ago and strung Nate along before the deception was revealed.
- Chloe Frazer repeatedly betrays Nate over the course of the film including near the end (which Nate anticipates, sending her on a wild goose-chase). In the video games, Chloe also started out as morally ambiguous, but was a firm ally of Nate's by the end of Among Thieves.
- Even Chloe's father is not spared: rather than sending Chloe and her mother away for their safety while he chases the Tusk of Ganesh as Chloe mentions in Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, he sold Chloe's first find and disappeared with the money.
- Adaptation Deviation: The movie makes significant changes to pivotal events that happened in the game continuity.
- The Uncharted comics established Chloe and Nate's first meeting in an auction house in Volkov Castle while separately trying to steal the Amber Seal. In the movie, they're introduced to each other by Sully, who has a spotted history with Chloe.
- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception shows that a teenage Nate met Sully while trying to pickpocket him in Colombia. This movie shows an early 20s Nate meeting Sully while working as a bartender in New York.
- The same scene in Drake's Deception shows that Nate got Sir Francis Drake's ring from Sully, who stole it from a Colombian museum. The beginning of the movie has Sam give the ring to a very young Nate at the orphanage they lived in.
- In A Thief's End, Sam comes back to get Nate from the orphanage to help him find their mother's belongings and later leave the orphanage together for good. They continue to work together until a couple years before Drake's Fortune takes place when a heist goes wrong and Nate is forced to abandon Sam after the latter gets caught and put in prison for life. In the movie, Nate never sees Sam again after the latter gets kicked out of the orphanage. Sam is then later on revealed to have been imprisoned for unknown reasons.
- A Thief's End revealed that Sam and Nate made up the story about being descended from Sir Francis Drake in order to hide their identities after being wrongly suspected of murder. In the film, while it isn't clear whether they actually are the descendants of Sir Francis Drake, it is made clear that Sam and Nate genuinely believe it.
- Adaptation Personality Change:
- Nate's personality is changed to better fit Tom Holland's most well-known type. In the video games, he's a tough and confident man who maintains a wry wit even in a crisis. In the movie, he's a wide-eyed but determined young man prone to blurting out funny things when he's scared.
- Combined with Adaptational Jerkass, Sully's personality is also changed to better fit Mark Wahlburg's standard character type. In the games, Sully is a crusty but friendly older man with a lot of integrity for a crook. In the film, he's a condescending and slippery man with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder.
- All for Nothing: Downplayed for Nate and Sully. In the end, the Filipino government lays claim to the entire treasure, and Sully threw the bag of gold he got at Braddock to save Nate. Fortunately, Nate was able to sneak a few pieces of gold in his pockets. Played straight for Chloe as she comes away from the whole thing empty handed.
- Alternate Continuity: Anyone familiar with Uncharted 3: Drake's Deceptionnote and Uncharted 4: A Thief's Endnote will likely put together from the trailer alone that this is not a one-to-one adaptation of the games' story.
- Artistic License – Biology:
- Magellan's ships and their spice cargo are too perfectly preserved despite being 500-year-old perishable material lying in an open sea cave; the spice is still fragrant, while the ships remain structurally intact enough for them to be air-lifted and swung around without falling apart. In real life, while they might have not completely rotten away, both the wood and the spice would be still utterly rotten.
- The thin red line cut into the Big Bad's throat is 100% impossible. We as the audience know it's because the film is rated PG-13, but in actuality, his blood would be absolutely everywhere. It's baffling that they didn't just have her stab him in the back or the gut or simply snap his neck, where you could just use a Gory Discretion Shot if you didn't want the blood to make the movie have an R rating. If she cut his throat so shallow that only a tiny line of blood appears, then it wouldn't have killed him in the first place. It would've just been a surface wound and nothing more.
- Artistic License – Chemistry:
- Two wooden ships left exposed to the elements in a tropical region for 500 years would have probably rotted into nothingness long before anyone figured where to find them. To say nothing of these same ships being airlifted via helicopter.
- After 500 years of being exposed to a tropical jungle, gunpowder wouldn't work.
- Artistic License – Engineering: Iberian naos from the 16th were certainly fine ships, but they would not be able to comfortably absorb an aerial crash against a giant rock like Magellan's ships do during the aerial chase (the second ship eventually disintegrates, but not after the first hit), not to talk after passing five centuries rotting in a sea cave. One of the ships even remains intact and aflotat for several minutes after landing on the sea from a significantly high altitude, a stunt no wooden ship whatsoever would have survived.
- Artistic License – History:
- The House of Moncada is sort of real, as there was a noble family surnamed Moncada in the kingdom of Aragon at the time of Magellan, but it was relatively undistinguished and nowhere near as rich as to fund the Magellan expedition, the Spanish Inquisition, and even The Crusades, something not even the richest non-royal houses of Europe, like the Fugger and the Welser, would have been able to do easily.
- Discussed in-film when Sam teaches Nate that Juan Sebastián Elcano was actually the first person to circumnavigate the globe and not Ferdinand Magellan. Ironically, that might be also incorrect, as a little-known fact is that a slave of his working aboard the ship named Enrique of Malacca was from Malaysia and had been taken to Portugal, and so when the fleet crossed the Pacific and he deserted in Philippines, if he returned to Malaysia, he might have become the true first person to have sailed (non-consecutively) around the world. It should be noted that Magellan managed to pass his "Farthest East" point from a previous journey (though not at the same latitude or the same place), so while his being "first" is factually incorrect, he did circumnavigate the globe, just not in a single trip.
- Despite what the movie claims, Magellan was not seeking gold, and certainly didn't find treasure in the Philippines. His treasure in the film is even composed of gold jewels with an generic Southeast Asian design, implying it was sacked from Filipino tribes, but those weren't that rich at the time in real life and Magellan didn't engage in any local pillaging either (maybe had he won the Battle of Mactan he could have grabbed some booty from the beaten, but he lost and died in the process). What Magellan was seeking, acknowledged in the movie itself, was spice, which was literally more valuable than gold at the time and only grew beyond the part of the world he wanted to reach, the Molucca islands. The worst is that he didn't even find it, as he died before the necessary commercial relationships could be established; the true value of his expedition, aside from a small load of spice brought by Elcano, was to bring Spain a ton of cosmographical information that served them for their next attempts, which eventually led to the conquest of the Philippines and the blossoming of the Spanish global routes.
- The film heavily implies that the Magellan Expedition departed and returned to Barcelona, when in fact the expedition's home base was Seville.
- Artistic License – Physics:
- The action opener features Nate jumping forward into the wind at what must be close to 500 miles an hour. Very few human legs have the muscle needed to jump like that, and it's unclear if Nate happens to possess any of them. Additionally, in any case, there would be too much air resistance for him to make such a jump. If he made that jump inside the plane, it would've been perfectly fine, because the air in the plane would be moving forward at the same speed as him.
- Chloe Fraser is first introduced in Barcelona as a snarky girl who steals the cross from the backpack on Nate's back during a boring Shot/Reverse Shot conversation... which documents her exact location at all times and shows that she actually cannot reach the backpack, much less rummage through it and take something out of it. What's worse is they are looking at her the entire time. Most heist movies at least have a sleight of hand brush or have the protagonists look one way for just enough time for a theft to take place. She literally never gets within an arm's length of them and to make it even more absurd, when Nate does open the backpack, he has to pull a hoodie out of it first before getting to the bottom of the bag where the cross should be, so there is literally no way she could've stolen it, yet the movie insists she somehow did. She ought to apply to be the new David Copperfield, in that case, because the only way she could've stolen it in this scene is by literal magic.
- Ascended Extra: Played with, but Sam compared to the games, where he doesn't even get mentioned until the fourth game. While he doesn't get as much screen time here, he is a key character to the plot and Nate's motivations.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Santiago Moncada.
- Bloodless Carnage: Moncada's throat slit at Braddock's hands is surprisingly clean, even for a film aimed at families.
- Brick Joke:
- At the beginning of the movie, Sam gives Nate his last piece of chewing gum, and Nate eats the entire piece as Sam tells him they have to share. At the end of the movie, Nate gives Sully his last piece of chewing gum... and Sully throws it out of the window.
- While planning on stealing the cross, Nate tells Sully he'll need a new suit, a pair of electric boltcutters and a cat. Nate then reveals that the cat was actually for Sully, since he thought his life was sad. Flash-forward to The Stinger, and it's revealed that Sully has not only kept it, but he has named it, and travels everywhere with it!
- The Cameo: Nolan North, who voices Nathan Drake in the games, shows up as a tourist in the Philippines who comments on Nate and Chloe's appearance in the beach. When they say that they fell out of a car that fell out of a plane, he remarks that something similar happened to him once. To hammer home the point, a low-key rendition of Greg Edmonson's Uncharted theme plays in the background.
- Chekhov's Gun:
- Sam's use of invisible ink and the postcards he sent is what lets Nate realize how to find where the treasure is hidden.
- Nate putting in his phone on Sully's GPS tracker app allows Sully to follow him to Elcano's treasure.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder:
- Chloe keeps betraying Nate. At various points in the film she steals the cross from Nate's backpack, she knocks Nate out and takes the map to Moncada and finally picks up the false coordinates Nate had left on the table.
- Subverted with Sully. While Chloe keeps calling him out on having this (and he makes numerous allusions to selling his partners out to stay on top), when the time comes he chooses saving Nate from Braddock over his bag of gold. The closest we get is the auction house, where he attempts to leave with the treasure while Nate is forced to deal with security.
- Cliffhanger: The Stinger shows Nate and Sully manage to escape Gage… only to encounter one more unseen obstacle.
- Death by Looking Up: Braddock is knocked into the ocean by Sully and meets her end when the ship she was trying to have flown out ends up falling right on top of her.
- Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us: Chloe's excuse for why she turns on Nate.
- The Dragon: Jo Braddock to Santiago Moncada. Until she turns into The Starscream and kills him to take over the operation and keep the treasure.
- Durable Deathtrap: All of the traps in Barcelona designed to keep the map to the treasure safe all work neatly after 500 years, despite having a nightclub and a Papa Johns built around and in them.
- Epic Ship-on-Ship Action: It can hardly get more epic than two 16th century boats being flown by helicopters and ramming each other mid flight while Nate fights off several mercenaries.
- Evil Counterpart: As with the games, Braddock, Santiago's Dragon, is one to Nathan. Both are physically adept associates of Sully (formerly in the case of Braddock) who are searching for Magellan's treasure. But while Nate is generally averse to killing and wants the treasure to see if it might help him find his brother Sam, Braddock is Only in It for the Money and will kill anyone who gets in her way. Additionally, while Nate is unwilling to betray his allies but does start realizing others will not have these scruples and plans accordingly, Braddock has no such qualms and backstabs Santiago once she gets fed up with him. Finally, while Braddock was double-crossed by Sully in the past, Sully refuses to betray Nate in the climax, ultimately resulting in Braddock's death.
- Exactly Exty Years Ago: The main plot of the movie occurs 15 years after the prologue scene.
- Face–Heel Revolving Door: Chloe is initially working with Sully before becoming The Mole for Moncada but then starts working with Nate again after Braddock's coup. She finally betrays Nate AGAIN to go after the treasure alone, fortunately by this point he's become savvy enough not to trust her.
- Flat "What": Nate's response when a bad guy threatens him with an extremely thick and almost indecipherable Scottish accent. In the trailer anyway, in the film proper his response is "I'm sorry?"
- Foreshadowing:
- When Sully and Braddock meet at the auction house, she sneers he once taught her to do anything to get the gold. It sounds just another extension of everyone's Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, but her emphasis on gold is an early indication she's got far bigger ambitions than just getting paid by Moncada.
- The mercenaries finding Nate and Chloe in the disco even though the latter arrived there through a secret passageway foreshadows that Chloe is working for Moncada.
- Genius Bruiser: Nate is very good in a fisticuffs fight, and is also the one that finds out most of the clues in the treasure hunt from the moment he joins.
- Go Look At The Distraction:
- When the auction security guards begin to corner Nate after the scandal he caused, he tricks them into looking at the place he fell off from before legging it.
- At the pub, he drops alcohol on the counter and lights it on fire so he and Chloe can jump behind and open the secret door.
- Grievous Bottley Harm: Nate hits the mercs with bottles. In an aversion of Soft Glass, the bottles are still intact after the fight ends.
- Groin Attack: Narrowly avoided when Nate stops a cannonball from landing on that spot.
- Hollywood Density:
- The crosses that play such a prominent role in the film are said to be made of solid gold, which would make them considerably heavier than the way they are handled on-screen would imply.
- This also applies to the gold in the treasure when it is found. Sully's backpack full of gold would be extremely difficult to even lift, and if Nate actually had all of that gold in his pockets, he'd have trouble moving around.
- Hypocrite: Chloe refuses to trust Nate and berates him for trusting Sully... while she repeatedly betrays his trust and backstabs him.
- Sully also does this a few times but has a Heel–Face Turn during the climax.
- Iconic Attribute Adoption Moment:
- During the third act, Nate recovers a leather shoulder harness and pistol holster from a defeated mook, instantly completing his ensemble.
- Sully is sporting his iconic mustache when he comes to Nate's rescue in The Stinger, which Nate mocks him for.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Nate manages to fire a 16th century cannon and hit the tail rotor of a moving helicopter that was charging at him and Sully. This causes the helicopter to spiral out of control, destroying the ship it was carrying and sending the helicopter crashing down.
- In Medias Res: The film begins with Nate waking up as he hangs from one of the cargo boxes that are tied to the plane.
- It's Personal with the Dragon: Downplayed. Nate gets a vendetta against Jo Braddock after learning that she had apparently killed his brother Sam, but when they next meet she has become a Dragon Ascendant after killing her employer Santiago Moncada.
- Karmic Death:
- Santiago has Braddock kill his father for giving away the family fortune to charity. Braddock later kills Santiago due to wanting Magellan's treasure for herself. Father and son are even killed the same way — Braddock gives them a Slashed Throat.
- Braddock betrayed Santiago so that she could claim Magellan's ships (and the treasure within) for herself. She ends up being crushed by one of those ships.
- Lancer vs. Dragon: Sully takes on Braddock in Barcelona while Nate and Chloe are stuck in a Death Trap.
- Le Parkour: Nate does this to move around in any place.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: Chloe is an untrustworthy thief who repeatedly betrays her allies, but she also saves Nate's life a few times and only knocks him unconscious when she turns on him, whereas the other antagonists are cold-blooded killers.
- Lighter and Softer: While both the film and the games maintain a light tone of high adventure, the video games have rather infamously incongruous violence, with each game featuring Nate and allies brutally killing countless dozens of mooks amidst the wisecracks. The movie, in contrast, is nowhere near as violent, with most villains getting knocked out or tossed over railings to ambiguous fates.
- Mr. Fanservice: Nathan has a gratuitous shirtless workout sequence and another shirtless scene later in the film. He also has multiple scenes of him in wet see through white shirts. One review even called the film Tom Holland's pecs: The Movie
- The Mole: Chloe for Moncada.
- Mythology Gag:
- The film opens on an action scene in progress, which actually takes place later in the story; Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End begin in a similar manner.
- The scene with the cargo boxes tumbling out of the plane is inspired by a similar set-piece in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.
- Some neon signage in the bar Nate works at in the beginning reads "Kitty Got Wet," an infamous
Throw It In! line Nolan North came up with from his son. - Series creators Naughty Dog's logo can be seen as a sticker on Nate's suitcase containing his Memento MacGuffin of Sam's postcards. A Precursor Orb can also be seen in the suitcase, as a nod to the recurring Easter Egg where one can be found in each Uncharted game.
- The auction house heist is a homage to a similar scene that happened in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, with Nate and Sully meeting the Big Bad and bidding against them for a cross up for sale.
- Sam's going on the lam and leaving Nate at the orphanage, his years-long confinement to a Hellhole Prison, and Nate believing he's dead are all lifted from Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, implying that their reunion on another treasure hunt will also play out on film.
- Like in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, the real villain turns out to be The Starscream who murders the seeming Big Bad late in the story and takes over themselves.
- Like Rafe Adler, Jo Braddock also meets a Death by Looking Up as she's crushed by the very treasure she was looking for.
- The classic Uncharted theme motif plays during two specific scenes: once during Nolan North's cameo in the Philippines, and another when Nate acquires his traditional gun holster.
- During the stinger, Nate name drops Roman, the villain of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.
- Meta example: the game series started in 2007 with Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and while the film comes out in 2022 (and is ostensibly set in the same year) the film's first flashback places Nate and Sam at the orphanage 15 years before - in 2007.
- Never My Fault: Chloe is last seen angrily pursuing Nate and Sully because Nate made false coordinates and sent her on a wild goose chase, even though he only did it because she had already betrayed his trust and he anticipated she would do it again, which she did by stealing the (false) coordinates.
- Not So Remote: Dumped out of a cargo plane, Nate and Chloe appear to be stuck somewhere in the middle of the ocean (a chyron simply states "Somewhere"). When Chloe asks, "You see what I see?" Nate snorts "nothing but endless ocean for miles around us?" He turns to see just what Chloe does: the beach of a huge island resort.
- Noodle Implements: Nate texts Sully a short list of items he needs for the heist... which includes a cat. There's a noticeable Beat before Sully responds. Subverted in that the cat has nothing to do with the heist; Nate just tricked Sully into getting himself a pet because he seemed lonely. Everything else on the list has a sensible purpose.
- Noodle Incident: The guy who sees Nate and Chloe walk onto the beach in the Philippines apparently fell out of a plane after being hit by a car, like Nate describes. The joke being that the guy is played by Nolan North, whose portrayal of Drake did in fact experience something similar.
- Obligatory Earpiece Touch: During the auction heist, Nate does so while conversing with Sully, who tells him he looks like an idiot. He does it again in the climax.
- Oh, Crap!: Given that this trope is an Uncharted staple, it should come as no surprise that it shows up, with Nate saying it before he gets hit by a car in the back of the plane in the trailer, but not in the final cut.
- Once an Episode: An example across mediums, as once again, the apparent Big Bad is betrayed by their dragon, who becomes the true Big Bad of the story.
- On Second Thought: At the Santa María del Pi crypt, Nate picks one passageway while Chloe splits off. When a trap triggers right in front of him, Nate suddenly decides he'd rather go with the other passageway after all.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: American Sophia Ali's Australian accent as Chloe Frazer drifts between Australia and New Zealand, sometimes sounding unintelligible.
- Paddleball Shot: Has one, despite not being a 3D movie. While searching through his childhood suitcase, Nate throws a baseball up in the air, and since the camera is above him, it creates this effect.
- Patricide: Santiago Moncada clashes with his father on what to do about his family's legacy. While he wants to find Magellan's gold and reclaim what he believes to be his by birthright, his father is ashamed of the Moncada legacy and plans to give away their wealth in a show of repentance. This culminates in Santiago working with Jo Braddock to murder his own father to stop that from happening.
- The Power of Trust: Finding the map to the treasure in Barcelona requires two people that trust each other, as the only way to open the trap door is for someone outside to use the second key before whoever is below drowns, and then throw the key down.
- Product Placement: Sully finds himself in a Papa John's looking for a mechanism to disable a booby trap triggered by Nate and Chloe. He winds up fighting Braddock in the restaurant too.
- Ragnarök Proofing: All the complex mechanisms that the 18 put in place to hide the treasure map still work flawlessly five centuries later.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: Braddock is the leader of Moncada's mercenaries (and later the whole operation), in addition to being their deadliest fighter.
- Refuge in Audacity: When the Scottish mercenary finds Nate in the disco, Nate offers him a cocktail. And then he continues to guess the guy's preference while being pummeled.
- Remake Cameo: Or adaptation cameo to be precise. Nolan North (Nathan Drake in the games) appears as a tourist on a beach in the Philippines.
- Running Gag: Nate trying (and failing) to start his lighter.
- Scenery Porn: We get some amazing shots of Barcelona and the Philippine island where the treasure is hidden.
- Secret Test: Chloe is asleep when Nate figures out the location of the treasure and writes the coordinates down. He then goes to sleep and wakes up to find her gone. The real coordinates were rolled up in the mouth of a bottle on the table.
- Sequel Hook: Nate and Sully get an old Nazi map from an eyepatch-wearing man, only to come face to face with an unseen obstacle. The reference to "Roman" and the gold gun suggest a lead-in to the events of the first game, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, though the eyepatch wearer wanting Nate's ring suggests the third game, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.
- Sexy Soaked Shirt: Happens twice to Nathan, one in a fountain in Barcelona and another in the the cave when he discovers the pirate ships.
- Shirtless Scene: The audience is treated to a whole montage of Nathan exercising shirtless, while he figures out how to cut the power to the auction house.
- Shout-Out:
- Nate asks Chloe why she chose to do the Indiana Jones thing.
- The film also homages Indiana Jones’ map-based travel montages.
- "Why does it have to be nuns?"
- Sully calls Nate "Jack Sparrow" as he plays out his pirate captain fantasy.
- Nate destroying a helicopter using an old cannon may be one of these to Sahara (2005).
- Nate asks Chloe why she chose to do the Indiana Jones thing.
- Soft Glass:
- Averted with the bottles Nate uses to beat up some mooks — at the end of the fight, they are still intact.
- Averted with the glass covering the keyhole Sully needs to access. He hits it with a chair, and it doesn't crack. A few gunshots barely make a dent in it. He has to pick up Braddock and throw her into the glass for it to break, and the impact knocks her out.
- Soft Water: Braddock survives her fall into the sea from the helicopter hijacked by our heroes. The pirate ship falling on her is a different story.
- The Starscream: Jo Braddock eventually kills Moncada and supplants him as the Big Bad.
- Sticky Fingers:
- Nate makes a living by stealing stuff from the rich clients at the pub he works at, such as a girl he's chatting up and swiping her bracelet while trying to light a cigarette for her. He also steals Sully's credit card to pay for a hotel room at the Philippines.
- Sully and Chloe are also skilled pickpockets, as Nate learns the hard way.
- The Stinger:
- Sam is revealed to still be alive and in jail somewhere, writing a postcard to Nate.
- Later, Nate and Sully meet a one-eyed man and mention acquiring something for Roman. Sully is also now sporting his trademark 'stache.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- Sully ends up getting delayed because the keyhole he needs to access is behind a solid pane of glass, and throwing a chair at it isn't enough to break it. It takes three gunshots and Sully throwing an entire person at the glass for it to break.
- When one of the ships gets dropped into the ocean, it seems to be floating for a few minutes. But it ultimately sinks because a wooden ship that has been sitting abandoned in a cave on a remote island for the last five centuries is not going to still be seaworthy.
- Theme Song Power Up: In the climax, as Nate slaps on a familiar gun holster, the soundtrack shifts into the iconic theme from the games.
- This Is Gonna Suck:
- Nate's word for word reaction, when he realizes he'll need to jump onto the hanging lights to get away from security.
- Later when Chloe realizes her only way off the plane, she grimaces and says "This is a bad idea."
- The look on Braddock's face as a 500-year-old ship is about to land on her says this loud and clear.
- Travel Montage: Several in the style of Indiana Jones - that is to say a visual of a plane flying across a map.
- The Unintelligible: The Scottish heavy employed by Braddock has an accent so thick, even other Scots likely can't understand him either. Nathan just says "I'm sorry?" when he's threatened by him.
- Watch the Paint Job: Moncada tells the mercenary loading the former's personal car into the plane to avoid making a scratch on it. Chloe uses it to escape the plane and it drops in the middle of the sea, but by then Moncada is dead.
- We Need a Distraction: The original plan for the auction heist was for Nate to kill the power and Sully to grab the cross before the lights came back on, much like the auction heist in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. That plan goes sideways when Moncada's men interfere. Nate still manages to cause a distraction by swinging around on the light fixtures while trying to evade them, while Sully takes advantage of the chaos to grab the cross, don a disguise and slip away.
- Workout Fanservice: Nathan is shown working out without a shirt.
- You Killed My Father: Nate confronts Braddock in the plane sometime after learning she shot Sam.
"Sic parvis magna."
