Vinegar

Rating: 1/10 (14 July 2008)

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 BuÃ±uel, 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?