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

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

It's not possible to believe that Ms. Davis is the highly respected captain of a pirate ship, and it's not even fun to try.

| May 20, 2003

They should have sunk the regrettable "Cutthroat Island" before ever casting off.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jun 18, 2002

If the sight of half-naked, tattooed sailors firing cannons at each other shivers your timbers, climb aboard. Even passable pirate movies don't sail by every day.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It is a pirate picture, pure and simple, and doesn't transcend its genre except perhaps in the luxurious production. Leaner and meaner pirate movies have worked more or less as well, but this one gets the job done.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It takes a two-hour act of will to keep facing the screen during this moribund movie.

| Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Somewhere, Errol Flynn is wincing.

| Original Score: D | Dec 22, 1995