#Henderson one of their most fierce buccaneers. that's all a lot of fun for your average old tv freak (guilty) but for such a resoundingly
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The Island (1980)
"Are you wise enough to feel privileged? You and I are the only living men ever to see what you see now."
"A bunch of arseholes playing Long John fucking Silver?"
"Hardly, dear boy. Living history: an anthropologist's dream. You're witnessing the seventeenth century."
#the island#1980#peter benchley#michael ritchie#michael caine#david warner#angela punch mcgregor#frank middlemass#don henderson#dudley sutton#colin jeavons#jeffrey frank#brad sullivan#zakes mokae#ricky rincon#susan bredhoff#ennio morricone#hot mess of a film. the producers paid Benchley a record breaking 2.5 million for the rights to his novel‚ gave him refusal rights on cast#and location‚ a cut of the gross and even a percentage of soundtrack sales. they were expecting another Jaws megahit and boy did they#miscalculate. a strange and difficult to categorize movie: it opens on strong gore horror but quickly settles into adventure film mode as#Caine's journalist (and son) investigate missing boats in the Bermuda triangle and stumble across an island of pirate descendants still#plying their cutthroat trade. that these pirates are played by some of the finest Brit character actors of the era is one of the chief#positives here: my boy Davey W is their leader‚ Colin Jeavons their legal expert and mystic scribe‚ Dudley Sutton their medic and Don#Henderson one of their most fierce buccaneers. that's all a lot of fun for your average old tv freak (guilty) but for such a resoundingly#weird set up and (let's be honest) silly idea‚ this is strangely unenthusiastic. Warner in particular is badly served‚ his chief antagonist#never afforded the fearsome stature and moments of menace that the character is so clearly calling out for. Angela P M fares little better#with her character‚ after an astounding entrance completely caked in mud and looking entirely inhuman‚ gradually fading into the background#it's... idk. problems in scripting‚ chiefly‚ and in the rather flat direction of Ritchie (most known for his work in broad comedy). made#a good deal weirder or a great deal nastier this might have had some real impact and ended up an unlikely cult classic. as it is‚ it was a#financial bomb and I'm sorry to say it isn't any great stretch to see why. fun enough for fools but no great time to be had alas
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