An average movie

Way before ‘Pirates of the Carribean’, back in the 90's, Renny Harlin directed this big budget pirate movie. Eventually, it turned out to be a huge a flop, it was even listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest box office flop of all time. The production company, Carolco Pictures, even went bankrupt after this disaster. Eventually, was it that bad? Not really actually. I mean, the costumes, the mood, the action scenes were all rather decent. The main issue is that the whole thing was unfortunately rather boring to watch. Indeed, it was too generic and predictable and the lack of exciting characters was really obvious. I mean, I have nothing against Geena Davis and Matthew Modine but they never managed to really excite me. It was actually a pretty neat idea to have a pirate movie with a female main character but the whole thing suffered from a terrible lack of inspiration. Eventually, almost 10 years later, with 'Pirates of the Carribean', they eventually got it right by hiring an awesome actor who was able to create a genuinely entertaining character, the legendary Captain Jack Sparrow. To conclude, this flick was not really bad but it was still pretty average and I don’t think it is really worth a look I’m afraid.

5/10