As a female fencing coach, I am one of the biggest swashbuckling movie fans anywhere. I watched this movie in a room full of 35 other fencers, many of whom love to dress up as pirates and do sword demonstrations at history fairs. These are people who have seen every swashbuckler ever made, and relish even mediocre fantasy and sword movies just for the action.
And we all hated Cutthroat Island, if you can say "hated" when we were laughing so hard we thought our sides would burst. To top off the nonexistent script and lifeless acting, the film appears to have been directed and edited by untrained ten year olds.
This one was given the real MST3K treatment at our annual fencers' Xmas party, and none of us are snobby critics. We love a good pirate story well told. This wasn't it.
And we all hated Cutthroat Island, if you can say "hated" when we were laughing so hard we thought our sides would burst. To top off the nonexistent script and lifeless acting, the film appears to have been directed and edited by untrained ten year olds.
This one was given the real MST3K treatment at our annual fencers' Xmas party, and none of us are snobby critics. We love a good pirate story well told. This wasn't it.