The Bluff (2026)
Directed by Frank E. Flowers
When her tranquil life on a remote island is shattered by the return of her vengeful former captain, a skilled ex-pirate must confront her bloody past and unleash her deadly talents to save her family from a ruthless siege.
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For all their faults, at least films like At World's End and Cutthroat Island are recognizable for their own thing.
Geena Davis’ Morgan Adams in Cutthroat Island (1995)…
A Cutthroat Island, if there is such a thing, for a new generation: the Hudson Hawk of swashbuckling action-adventure that almost survives on the gorgeous, talented leads.
…you start to wonder if this is the pirate movie that should have been called Cutthroat Island instead of the actual film with that designated title.
Filmmakers don’t want to make another Cutthroat Island, they want to make another Pirates of the Caribbean.
Only this time it’s an action thriller with all the bloody violence of a John Wick movie.
Blending the intense, brutal action of movies like John Wick and Extraction…
Priyanka Chopra Jonas continues her action hero audition with this bloody 19th-century Venn diagram of Die Hard, John Wick and various video games.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas is the pirate version of John Wick in Frank E. Flowers' The Bluff, Amazon's latest straight-to-streaming action flick.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas continues her action hero audition with this bloody 19th-century Venn diagram of Die Hard…
Parts of this sequence are reminiscent of Predator, with the pursued becoming the pursuant, and like Die Hard in Ercell's dogged determination to fight with Rube Goldberg machines and McGuyver-like improvised contraptions.
It’s almost like she’s scolding him for idolising someone like Johnny Depp’s tipsy Captain Jack Sparrow.
We’re on the Caribbean island of Cayman Brac, but there’s no Jack Sparrow in sight.
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…an almost Saving Private Ryan-esque beach invasion sequence…
Don’t expect elaborate ship duels in the tradition of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World or Pirates of the Caribbean. In The Bluff (named for the island’s steep cliff), the confrontations play out in compact homes, scrubland, caves and along the bluff.
Blending the intense, brutal action of movies like John Wick and Extraction…
The biggest and most famous pirate films — the aforementioend Johnny Depp films, Hook, Treasure Island — all whitewash or nullify the power of race at sea. They also sanitize the violence about about murders and rapists to make them more appropriate for children.
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…with past female pirates in cinema featured in the likes of Jean Peters’ Capt. Anne Providence in Anne of the Indies (1951)…
I know that I sound like I’m saying “Airplane!” wouldn’t be funny without the jokes, but the difference is the jokes in “Airplane!” are brilliant, so you wouldn’t want to lose them.