This Geena Davis vanity project, directed by then husband Renny Harlin, is remembered primarily—if it's remembered at all—as one of the biggest box office bombs of all time ($10 million gross on a $100 million dollar budget). Geena Davis is way out of her depth (pun!) as the Pirate Captainess Morgan Adams, but it's not the action stuff where she comes up short. Her performance here is simply dreadful. And co-star Matthew Modine is... well, he's Matthew Modine. To his credit, the normally comatose actor does manage to squeeze every last ounce of charisma out of himself. Unfortunately, an ounce is about all that he has. With its rousing (if perhaps relentless) John Debney score, a few well staged action sequences, intermittently witty script and strong villain (Played by the great Frank Langella), "Cutthroat Island" could've been an above average swashbuckler with better leads.
Review of Cutthroat Island
