Cutthroat Island [Blu-ray] (1995)

Cutthroat Island [Blu-ray] (1995)
Starring: Geena Davis, Frank Langella

Director Renny Harlin's high-seas adventure has some good things going for it: Geena Davis makes a swashbucklingly alluring pirate, and the megabudget provides huge explosions. But this plot-heavy rollick is as badly constructed and overwhelmingly inflated as Spielberg's "Hook." Harlin's earlier films, "Die Hard 2" and "Cliffhanger," had their fair share of muscular action, and he doesn't disappoint here: his winds blow and his seas roil. Matthew Modine, though-with whom Davis is teamed in a race for hidden treasure-is less than inspired. The movie gamely attempts to capture the fire of the old Errol Flynn pictures, but it's harsh and imposing, and there's no romance to it. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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