Rating of
1/4
Could this movie have stunk worse?
mdtinney - wrote on 03/30/10
That's scary to consider. The only redeeming thing in this entire movie was one stunt. Geena Davis' character Morgan was fighting on top of a carriage, which went underneath an overhanging roof. Davis jumped on top of the roof, ran up it, jumped thru a window, ran thru a room, jumped out a window, and did a forward somersault off the edge of the roof down into the seat of the carriage sitting in an upright position next to Matthew I Haven't Given A Good Performance In Years Modine. The forward somersault is amazing because either Davis did it herself or has a twin sister who is a stunt person. The rest of the movie is absolute garbage, with the standard modern day dialogue in the past, and the extremely tired action hero banter and catchphrases, none of which is funny. Did pirates spend so much time keeping their ships in such pristine condition? You'd think that even after going thru a tropical storm there'd be some wear. Maybe I just have too low an opinion of 17th(?) century shipbuilding techniques. If you want to see a better pirate movie, rent Jaws. At least Dreyfuss does a 2 second impression of a pirate that's more entertaining than anything this movie has to offer.
