a5c7b9f00b 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.
Morgan Adams' father's dying gifts to her are his pirate ship and a one-third part of a map of a treasure island - unusually inscribed on his scalp. Thinking herself in need of a Latin scholar to unravel the map, she buys learned slave William Shaw and sets off in search of the rest of the map. However, it is Shaw, obviously with plans of his own, who gets the second part. He's somewhat easier to deal with, though, than the holder of the last part - Morgan's less-than-loving piratical uncle Dawg.
Fast paced, thrilling joyride about a female pirate(Davis), daughter of an age old pirate who is given a task before her father dies: to find a great treasure which her grandfather left behind on an expedition. However there is a catch: Her Uncle Dawg(Langella) is after the treasure too, and will stop at nothing to steal it from his niece, with swashbuckling adventurous results. This film is a great gem of a movie, and what a pirate film should be. Now a days you have films like &quot;Pirates of the Caribbean&quot; that take all the money at the box office, and get nominated for Academy Awards, but this film is all that one would hope for in a pirate movie. Geena Davis turns is a very credible performance as Morgan Adams, the female pirate with an attitude and a look that could kill. She creates a character that the audience can root for, as she kicks butt through the movie and delivers one liners that, while some might consider lame(&quot;You like to was things? Start with your mouth!&quot;) Are effective in the end due to honest portrayal. Real sex appeal too. Some of the scenes involving water are really satisfying to the male audience. One great thing for money making, but it is done artistically as well. Matthew Modine is fun as the slave Shaw, whom is hired to translate a map founded by Davis. He plays his role out as annoying but with a little wit and charm. The best part of this film can be said to be Patrick Malahide as the canning Gov. Ainslee. This is a real funny character, while not much in the film, steals every scene he is in. Langella is a treat as the villain of the film, Captain Dawg. Very vile and reptilish, something that heroin Davis can play off of. The direction is superb. Renny Harlin had done his fair share of action films prior to this film so he really knew what he was doing. With a budget like the one this film has how can an action director go wrong! I really enjoyed his style. Especially in the first chase scene. The music is the heart of the film, as composer John Debney created an all too wonderful score to play with Morgan and her mates as they sail to victory, to the battles of the evil Dawg, to the beautiful opening credits which photograph Malta all too beautifully. Possibly one of the ten best scores of the nineties, this soundtrack soars with beauty and swashbuckling adventure and not a song is to be missed! The cinematography is to be mentioned too, as the cliffs of Malta and wherever else this film was shot are brought out to aesthetic ebullience!<br/><br/>All in all, this film has all that a film goer can want in an action film: It has action, sex appeal, excitement, danger, widescreen, and a great ending! It&#39;s really too bad this film flopped, as I adore it and would have liked to see it win some awards of some sort! What an awesome film!
Above all Cutthroat Island is a fun high-seas adventure. And I think that&#39;s what director Renny Harlin wanted it to be. Being very athletic Geena Davis is wonderful as a female pirate because she fits the part. It&#39;s much more convincing than having some Hollywood queen who is completely foreign to a little dirt, grime and action. <br/><br/>The fact that there isn&#39;t a wealth of recent pirate movies sits Cutthroat Island near the top of the heap, but I don&#39;t think it&#39;s unjustified. It really is a fun movie, and that&#39;s what a pirate movie should be. How can you have a completely serious pirate movie? It wouldn&#39;t be any fun. You have to have a guy with a wooden leg, some kind of pet-be it a parrot or a monkey, and guys that say &quot;aye&quot; and &quot;arg&quot;. <br/><br/>The ship to ship cannon fight is amazing. The simple reminder that seaborne warfare was like that once is amazing enough. Just pull up and start blowing the trash out of each other at close range. A far cry from today, where we just fire missiles at targets dozens of miles away. Flintlock pistols and sword fights are always cool, and Cutthroat Island has its fair share of them. <br/><br/>I enjoyed Matthew Modine&#39;s character, but I admit at times his lines seemed an uncomfortable fit, as though they were shoehorned in. The rest of the supporting cast is effective, and Frank Langella as Morgan&#39;s despicable uncle is the typical bad pirate, but enjoyable none the less.<br/><br/>Pirates of the Carribean is coming out a few months from the time I am writing this, and it will be interesting to see if and how the two movies are compared. If you haven&#39;t seen Cutthroat Island, rent it and sit back and enjoy the action. As I&#39;ve mentioned several times, it&#39;s a movie meant to be fun, and I believe it is.
It's mindless entertainment, but its critical and commercial failure doomed the pirate genre to a watery grave.
In order to get the PG rating for the theatrical release, more than a minute had to be removed, four more seconds got lost on the VHS release. Something that is also very interesting about the British VHS are the many instances of audio censorships. Punches, kicks and other fight audio effects were partially removed or just turned down in volume. This usually does not even catch the viewer&#39;s ear, however, all in all a certain censoring method can be made out. Interestingly enough, not a single one of these changes were applied to the British DVD version.<br/><br/>When the DVD was released in 2003, it would have been possible to release it uncut with the BBFC 15 rating, but the producers decided against it. The version that was given to the BBFC was already censored. Some of the previously cut scenes were put back into the movie, but others were removed instead. Still, one more scene (a headbutt) had to be removed in order to have the censoring agency let the film pass through without complaints.
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