Uncharted is surprisingly boring. It's filled with well made action scenes but the characters are dull and uncharismatic.
The story is very linear with few surprises. In fact it's mostly classic Hollywood tropes. Why was the script even greenlit?
Many scenes make little sense to me. Like, how does a 500 year old Spanish galleon lifted up in the air with two ropes not fall apart?
And how does a helicopter even lift a galleon? The smallest were perhaps about 500 tons, and easily up to 1000 tons.
Or a 500 year old treasure hidden under ground, but visible through a manhole cover (or something)? I might have missed something, dozing off.
The French Dispatch is visually marvelous with a soundtrack to boot. Short cartoon segments in the style of Hergé is stylishly included. It consists of 3 main stories, where I think the first one - The Concrete Masterpiece - is the best. The second one, inspired by the '68 student protests, is a little stiff and affected/feigned.
Since the segments are relatively short and the style is concise with stiff, punctuated dialogues you never really get attached to the characters. The short moments of intensity and pathos/poetry is due to the excellent actors. Again, the The Concrete Masterpiece, shines. The viewer remains distanced to the events, but such is the style of the director, Wes Anderson.
The segments also don't seem related to each other so the film as a whole doesn't really come together, but that is also not the goal, I think. But with really condensed storytelling filled with quick dialgue and visual impressions you never sort of digest the events before being introduced to the next many charactes and stories. It's a mental bombardment of impressions.
It's shot in alternating colour and black/white, which seems random and a little confusing (but not annoying). I fail to see if it has any meaning, related to the story, symbolism or chronology.
All in all, though, a wonderful film with great acting and storytelling.