...a larger-than-life (yet comfortably familiar) premise that is, at the outset, employed to engaging, briskly-paced effect...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 28, 2023

... A fitfully enjoyable, if frustratingly uneven and deeply flawed, attempt to create an unpretentious, thrills-and-spill adventure in the classic tradition.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 2, 2023

as a Saturday night frolic in ye olden style, Cutthroat Island is worth a visit

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2022

A chaotic jumble of bad action, juvenile comedy and chilly romance, all wrapped in a cheesecloth of limp, lifeless pirate cliches.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 11, 2018

It's hardly the landlubber suggested by its reputation (which has more likely shifted more toward novel curiosity than cautionary tale). But if all the parties involved suspected they were going broke, they should have gone *for* broke to boot.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 3, 2015

Poorly written, acted, and executed advanture tale of pirates.

| Original Score: D | Aug 4, 2011

Geena Davis brings girl power to the pirate ship.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 14, 2010

Hey, are you looking for an exciting movie about pirates of the, well, um, Caribbean? [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 17, 2009

Island is a one-of-a-kind, full-steam-ahead practical pirate event, and while it's bolted together with minimal attention to thespian proficiency, it sustains a special rhythm of eye candy and fortitude that makes it an enduring curiosity.

| Original Score: B | Aug 11, 2009

What seemed like a dubious proposition on paper plays even more dubiously onscreen, as "Cutthroat Island" strenuously but vainly attempts to revive the thrills of old-fashioned pirate pictures.

| Mar 26, 2009

So yeah, it's kind of fun. Even if it's not very good.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 7, 2007

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.

| Feb 9, 2006

A fun popcorn movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 23, 2006

This pirate movie wannabe should walk the plank.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 11, 2005

Strangely devoid of any genuine fun or excitement.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 7, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 8, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 12, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 12, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 25, 2004

A big, cheesy guilty pleasure full of beautiful landscapes and true swashbuckling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2003