Cutthroat Island (DVD)

Let's get his straight; I hate Cutthroat Island (as you might have gathered from my Waterworld review). And I'm truly worried about the sanity of the people on Dooyoo, since this absolutely awful movie has had mostly 4 star reviews and people saying it's good??!!. I just wanted to write this so that the average rating comes down a bit. I'd better say this before I begin; I haven't actually seen every minute of the film, and it was a while since I watched it on TV, so some of the details might be a bit rusty. This is because I switched off after about the first 45 minutes since it was completely unwatchable, then I tuned back in for the last half an hour or so. But I do ...  Read the complete review

Renny Harlin, director of such 'classics' as "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master", "Deep Blue Sea" and "Driven", took on the swashbuckling pirate genre for this disasterous 1995 production starring none other than his own wife-at-the-time Geena Davis. Davis plays lady pirate Morgan who's just lost her father to the evil Captain Dawg (Frank Langella), but from him she's inherited a third of a map that leads to a huge stockpile of treasure on the mysterious Cutthroat Island. Convincing her father's old shipmates of the Morning Star to join her in this quest, Morgan sets off on a wild adventure, picking up ...  Read the complete review

What do you get when you take $100million budget, a quality director, a quality actress, some lavish set pieces, some high adventure and a whole heap of nostalgia thrown in for good measure? Give up? Well, what you get it appears is universally slated by a bunch of so-called 'professional' movie critics who obviously wouldn't know a good movie if it jumped up and bit a chunk out of their collective fat a$$e$!! Cutthroat Island is NOT a bad movie despite what you would have been led to believe back in 1995...it is in fact a rather good movie. It doesn't try to be anything other than what it is - whichis basically a lame-brained ...  Read the complete review

What a great film ! It's a shame, a damn shame that this was sneered at by the critics. This is a true, old fashioned swashbuckler, the spirit of Erol Flynn flicks realised with a huge budget and some modern trappings. It's a hugely exciting pirate adventure with plenty of action and amazing scenery. The plot follows Geena Davis as a notorious female pirate who inherits part of a map from her father. The map is one third of a whole, which leads to fabulous treasure, buried on the legendary Cut throat island. As She gathers her scurvy crew and sets off to find the other parts of the map, she is pitted against her evil pirate uncle Dogg, an even more ...  Read the complete review

Cut throat island is a fairly enjoyable pirate movie.Its about a piratess and her rougue assistant who try to discover where her fathers treasure has been hidden,unfortunatley some of her co pirates think they should have the treasure and make it there buisness to try and stop her.Genna davies and Mathew modine make a excelllent team as the comicly search for the treasure and attempt to out wit each other,its sort of like a pre pirates of the carabiean movie to be honest.It is however action packed ,it rarley slows downs and is very entertaining.Although in the begining the map is written on a scalp the film is not gory and suitable for children,the story rounds it ...  Read the complete review