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Director: Renny Harlin
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From Time Out Film Guide
The pirate movie requires a dashing male star and a dose of lightly self-deprecating humour. In this $90m revisionist swashbuckler, we get Geena Davis doing the all-action honours, and a hotchpotch script that seems to think pirate movies are so funny in themselves the need for more humour is superfluous. The plot's well worn: a treasure map is sought by the star, her ill-matched cohort Modine, dully rhubarbing villain Langella, and others. On screen the money has bought yards of 17th century Jamaican fixtures and fittings, a couple of attractive galleons, and a warehouse of Semtex. Harlin is never a man to shy away from the lure of Very Big Explosions, and, on a technical level, the spectacle's impressive. The only actor to make much of an impact is Malahide's colonial officer, who extracts tart irony from the merest crumbs.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Renny Harlin
Producer: Renny Harlin, Joel B Michaels, Laurence Mark, James Gorman
Cast: Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Patrick Malahide, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin, Stan Shaw, Rex Linn, Harris Yulin full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 125 mins
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