It seems Tom Holland can’t stay away from the top of the box office for long. After breaking records with Spider-Man: No Way Home, Holland is back atop the box office this weekend as his adaptation of the Uncharted video game series dominates Presidents Day weekend. Uncharted is looking at $45 million in its first four days at the box office. Some more optimistic projections suggest it could open with $50 million. Uncharted hasn’t been a hit with critics. Still, ComicBook.com’s Tanner Dedmon found the movie to be a formulaic but fun entry into the PG-13 adventure movie genre.
“That’s probably who’ll enjoy this film the most; those who played one or two games in the series and could pick Nathan out of a lineup of protagonists but aren’t invested enough to get hung up on inconsistencies,” he writes in his 3.5-out-of-5 review of the movie. “For those uninitiated to Uncharted, let Holland be your Nate and shelve this movie next to your Pirates of the Caribbean and Indiana Jones collections. The more fervent fans may never see their favorite characters translated as well as they’d like, but we’ll almost certainly be getting more movies after this one, so it’s best to look at Uncharted the same way it views itself – not too seriously.”
Channing Tatum’s new film Dog is opening in the second-place spot, wedged between Holland’s Uncharted at number one and Spider-Man: No Way Home at number three. Spider-Man: No Way Home is now the third-highest-grossing movie ever at the domestic box office. The film surpassed James Cameron’s Avatar last week.
Last week’s chart-topper, Death on the Nile, falls to fourth place, while Jackass Forever rounds out this week’s top five. The complete list of top 10 films at the box office is currently in the works.
