Until seeing this train-wreck, I firmly believed "Cutthroat Island" was a shoo-in for the worst hour and a half of cinema in human history. However, everything is relative, and Renny Harlin's name now ranks alongside the best of Buñuel, Bergman, Bertolucci, anyone else whose name begins with B, or indeed any other letter.
This film stank to high heaven, and is truly remarkable for not having a single redeeming feature. The fact that it can have grossed over USD 85 million in the United States or that it scores nearly 7/10 on here does not surprise me in the least, but I am shocked that it took as much as USD 5 million in receipts in the rest of the world - I had unwisely imagined that elsewhere humankind had evolved.
I hope the pooch Baxter went on to better things. This dog was a seriously bad career move for him. As for the other actors, who really cares?
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