Cutthroat Island | 
| Actors: Ken Bones, Carl Chase, Maury Chaykin, Lucinda Clare, Geena Davis
Studio: Live / Artisan
Category: DVD
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Rating:  130 reviews
Sales Rank: 86534
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 118 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 6304490097
UPC: 012236044703
EAN: 9786304490099
ASIN: 6304490097
Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 1995
Release Date: June 18, 1997
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This mega-budget action epic flopped at the box office with a resounding thud, and it probably deserved that fate for not living up to its lavish potential. But Cutthroat Island has had a healthy shelf life on video, and digital video disc can only improve the film's potential as a spectacular guilty pleasure. Geena Davis plays Morgan, the swashbuckling daughter of an aging buccaneer who inherits one-third of a map to a secret pirate treasure. But the map is in Latin, and she needs a lowdown thief and scoundrel (and presumably a Latin scholar), played by Matthew Modine, to translate the map when they obtain the other two pieces. That's when the mayhem begins and the dashing duo race for the treasure against Morgan's scheming uncle (Frank Langella) and a hoard of greedy pirates. With wall-to-wall action ably handled by Davis's then-husband Renny Harlin, Cutthroat Island is more fun than its box-office performance would indicate. --Jeff Shannon
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Highly Enjoyable March 17, 2009
Eric S. Kim (Southern California)
Despite it being a box office bomb, Cutthroat Island is one hell of an entertaining pirate movie. It has lots of action (most of it being over the top, but it's a movie), adventure, and VERY GOOD bombastic music. Now I wouldn't classify this film as a classic. It doesn't have that epic scale that Doctor Zhivago and The Godfather apprehend. The plot may be too simplistic (and characters too 2-dimensional). But despite all that, I don't care. This is for entertainment purposes only, and it does its job well.
Grade: B+
A Fun Movie, Great Visuals....But Too Much Action February 5, 2009
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
Despite being fun to watch and very entertaining, this is not a film that draws me back for many viewings. Maybe it's too absurd: a beautiful woman pirate "Morgan Adams" (Geena Davis) punching everyone out at every turn can get a ridiculous and tiresome after awhile. It just an excess of everything, almost cartoon-like, and perhaps that is why it bombed at the box office.
If you haven't had enough action in first hour (and you do), the last half really goes crazy with a non-stop battle scene that goes on and on and on.
Nevertheless, there are some good things to watch in here besides Davis and her pretty face. the movie was filmed in Malta and in Thailand and features some beautiful island photography. The ship is magnificent and when two ships are side-by-side firing cannons at one another, it's an awesome sight and even more awesome sound. You really need to watch this with a good stereo system to appreciate the great audio work in here.
Frank Langella also makes for an interestingly effective villain ("Dawg Brown") while Matthew Modine ("William Shaw") chips in with a co-star and male companion for the good guy, er good girl.
 A very entertaining high seas adventure... February 1, 2009
Roberto Frangie (Leon, Gto. Mexico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The film opens in Jamaican coast in 1668...
While the Port Royal governor wants so badly the lady pirate, Morgan Adams, and will pay well for her, Dawg Brown (Frank Langella) was grabbing Morgan's father Black Harry (Harris Yulin) to take the first piece of a map (split into three separate pieces) to Cutthroat Island, where a treasure of a Spanish gold ship is said to be buried there...
Each of the other sections of the map is held by Morgan's two uncles: Dawg--the bad pirate who doesn't want to share the treasure--has the second piece stolen from a now-deceased brother, and Mordachai holds the third at Spittlefied Harbor...
So to seek the Spanish Treasure and to avenge her father's death, Morgan (Geena Davis) has to join with her uncle Mordachai and fight her murderous uncle to obtain the third part of the map...
The governor of the island (Patrick Malahide) offers Morgan two alternatives: One, an ignominious death on the gallows or she might cut him in for a share of her grandfather's treasure...
At the slave market, Morgan was looking for a man who can read Latin... So she picked a handsome convict who passes himself off as a physician with a natural pitch for music and a perfect taste in wine... His name was William Shaw (Matthew Modine).
If you enjoy Seventeenth Century pirate movies, and like to see how 92 million dollars were spent in sea-battles, rope-swinging, slow motion swashbuckling action, cannons with many explosions and many fires, plenty of rum, cove and cliffs, lots of treasure, the destruction of two Jamaican towns, gorgeous ocean vistas and breathtaking visuals ... don't miss this one!
 "Bad Dawg!" January 2, 2009
Westley (Stuck in my head)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
In the late 80s and early 90s, Geena Davis was one of the most interesting and quirky actresses in movies. She was in several hit movies (The Fly, A League of Their Own, Beetlejuice) and scored an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1988 for "The Accidental Tourist." Things went horribly wrong when she married Renny Harlin in 1993, and he set about trying to make her an action star. Geena arguably had the potential, as witnessed by her rather kick-ass turn as Thelma in "Thelma and Louise," for which she was Oscar-nominated for Best Actress in 1991. Indeed, Davis does a decent job and certainly makes a sexy action star. However, "Cutthroat Island" is a terrible action flick that flopped horribly, making back only $10 million of its $100 million dollar budget. The movie was notorious for its role in sending red-hot 90s movie studio Carolco into bankruptcy. Davis' career was also irreparably damaged; after the pair made another commercial flop in 1996 (The Long Kiss Goodnight), she didn't make another movie for three years.
The plot of "Cutthroat Island" is simple. Davis plays Morgan Adams, a female pirate from a family of pirates. When her father dies, she receives 2/3 of a map leading to buried treasure on the legendary Cutthroat Island. The final 1/3 of the map belongs to her uncle, the evil Dawg Brown (!) played by Frank Langella. She sets out to steal the map from Dawg and find the treasure, aided by Matthew Modine (the map is in Latin and he can translate it for her). So far, so good. Unfortunately, the movie seems to start in the middle of the story and never lets up from there. It's constant action with no breaks. An action movie should be action-packed, but "Cutthroat Island" is simply frenetic. The simple plot becomes difficult to follow, as there seems to be no transitions between scenes. At times, it feels as though sections are missing. Furthermore, few scenes contain dialogue without some kind of action, which severely limits character development. As a result, we don't care about the characters or whether they find the treasure.
The action of "Cutthroat Island" is also poorly directed. Nearly every action scene follows a predictable pattern - a gun or cannon is shot, cut to a close-up of an explosion, then finish with people jumping away from the explosion in slow-motion. The action ends up looking fake, which makes the movie interminably slow and mind-numbing. The soundtrack is also blaringly loud and omnipresent, which adds to the chaos. The only thing I enjoyed about "Cutthroat Island" was Morgan's pet monkey - he totally steals the show, which is a bad sign for a movie. "Cutthroat Island" is so bad that some people may enjoy watching it to make fun of it. For me, it was simply too boring to appeal to me even on that level.
 One of the Best Pirate Movies of All Time! December 21, 2008
Book & movie lover
This is one of my favorite pirate movies of all time because of the great acting, special effects and script. I've seen a lot of movies, especially in this genre, but none, save the Pirates of the Caribbean (which is not that great as this one), can even slightly compare to Cutthroat Island. This is the kind of movie (a Geena Davis classic as well as a pirate movie cult classic) that a person can watch over and over again to ad nauseum without getting even remotely sick while if you're watching something else like one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (which is o.k. in their own right, especially the very first one in the series), you just don't seem to appreciate it or even enjoy it as much as the very first time that you've actually watched it. So if you haven't seen this movie or haven't watched it in a very long time, go out there and get yourself a copy today! This will be a great movie to watch over the holidays!
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