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Cutthroat Island

1995

Renny Harlin

Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin ...

5.4

15,024

Adventure Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete her quest before they mutiny against her. This is made yet more difficult by the efforts of the British crown to end her piratical raids.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It is a pirate picture, pure and simple, and doesn't transcend its genre except perhaps in the luxurious production (...) this one gets the job done (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	It's mindless entertainment, but its critical and commercial failure doomed the pirate genre to a watery grave (at least until resurrected by J. Depp and co.) (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	Cutthroat Island" proves too stupidly smutty for children, too cartoonish for sane adults and not racy enough for anyone who regards Ms. Davis in a tight-laced bodice as its main attraction"	NEG
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Cutthroat Island is more entertaining for its dumb storyline and overt silliness than for its nearly nonstop action (...) Some of the visuals are breathtaking"	NEU
United States	Desson Howe The Washington Post	"It takes a two-hour act of will to keep facing the screen during this moribund movie."	NEG
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"No one seems to have remembered is that the great buccaneer movies (...) managed to forge a human connection between the audience and the action, something that this production has no idea how to do."	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"'Cutthroat Island' strenuously but vainly attempts to revive the thrills of old-fashioned pirate pictures (...) No one in the film seems to be having much fun, and the effect is contagious."	NEG

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