Even Spider-Man can’t save this one.

Tom Holland does his best to bring his charismatic spark to “Uncharted,” the long-in-the-making movie version of the popular video game, but it’s not enough to power this occasionally amiable but lethargic action-adventure. “Uncharted” isn’t unwatchable but it’s not particularly compelling either.

Holland is Nathan Drake, a clever and athletic scammer who’s always looking for the next opportunity to make some easy cash, like the bracelet he pockets from a woman he’s flirting with at the restaurant where he works. But he has never gotten over the disappearance of his older brother, Sam (Rudy Pankow), someone with whom he shared a zeal for old maps, age-of-discovery seafaring and treasure hunting.

So when a fellow treasure hunter named Victor Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) shows up in his restaurant with a proposal to find a couple of boatloads of sunken gold from one of Magellan’s voyages and maybe even his brother, Nathan — after some initial skepticism — is all in. Then it’s off to Spain where they are joined by Chloe (Sophia Ali), an old friend of Victor’s who may or may not be on their side, and have to fight off others on the hunt for the gold including rich and evil Santiago Moncada (Antonio Banderas) and his vicious hireling, Braddock (Tati Gabrielle), along with her crew of (inept, of course) thugs.

A breezy movie like “Uncharted” hinges on the camaraderie and chemistry between the leads but the one-liners Nathan, Victor and Braddock use with each other mostly fall flat. That leaves the effects which, except for the hanging from the airplane sequences that come at the start and near the end of the film, aren’t particularly dazzling. There’s really nothing here that hasn’t been done before in such movies as “National Treasure.”

Director Ruben Fleischer, here working from a script by Rafe Judkins, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, did a much better job of navigating this terrain of adventure, humor and effects with “Zombieland” in 2009 but he has had trouble coming with anything — “Gangster Squad,” “Zombieland: Double Tap” — nearly as engaging since then.

Better luck next time, Tom.

cary.darling@chron.com