Review of Cutthroat Island (1995) by Alex M — 18 Feb 2013

Certainly not the terrible mess that critics and audiences called it back then...but it does have its flaws and shortcomings. geena davis has certainly done better, but it's an interesting change for her to play such a touch heroine chick that can kick your ass.

makes me think a precursor to milla jovovich, her relationship with at the time director, Renny Harlin- draws many parallels to milla's/anderson's resident evil movies. I also can't believe geena davis agreed to have a random pirate grope her boobs for like 5 seconds.

that was sorta weird, considering this is classified as a "kids family movie." anywhoo, the movie is fun with plenty of interesting action bits and funny moments. i've seen that pirates of the caribbean(at least the black pearl) draws HEAVILY on the elements from this movie(and you can't just say "oh its pirate tropes though).

seeing geena davis trying to boss the pirates around and be tough actually looks silly really, and having her go head to head with dawg was rather silly. girl on guy is always going to result in one being stronger than the other.

frank langella was cheesy as the villain, but he did have a FEW good moments where he was a real snarky bastard, which was entertaining. and the final showdown between him and geena was interesting, I really liked the photography of the fire fight in the ship near the end.