You've probably watched tons of these type movies. Albet better ones. Nate and Hayes tries to be swashbuckling fun but it fails on so many levels. Starting with Tommy Lee Jones in his early days of acting or rather overacting here. He has always been a ham and his Bully Hayes is this blowhard who thinks he is all that.
His character is boring plain and simple. OKeefe and Seagrove are also bland characters, obviously precursors to Pirates of the Caribbeans Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann - they have neither the spontaneity or chemistry that Will and Elizabeth have in the latter film. Hayes' crew is little more than fodder chewing up the scenery with the exception of Bruce Allpress's sexy salt-and-pepper bearded sea captainish first mate who has some amusing scenes especially one where he is coming out of a whorehouse.
The villain in the movie Ben Pease played by the late Max Phipps does basically the same scenery-chewing overacting schlock that Tommy Lee Jones does. Comparing this movie to Raiders of the Lost Ark or any other more entertaining action film is ridiculous. The movie suffers from too much over acting and also probably could have used better writers .Tommy Lee Jones though is just not up to the task for this movie he doesn't have the acting chops nor the personality or charisma to pull off such a role and I don't think even today he would be able to pull it off he is just not that type of actor. I will say over all that the movie is worth a watch , just don't go into it expecting more than a bubble-headed type swashbuckler if you want to see another movie that's like this one check out 1978 swashbuckler with Robert Shaw. 5/10
His character is boring plain and simple. OKeefe and Seagrove are also bland characters, obviously precursors to Pirates of the Caribbeans Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann - they have neither the spontaneity or chemistry that Will and Elizabeth have in the latter film. Hayes' crew is little more than fodder chewing up the scenery with the exception of Bruce Allpress's sexy salt-and-pepper bearded sea captainish first mate who has some amusing scenes especially one where he is coming out of a whorehouse.
The villain in the movie Ben Pease played by the late Max Phipps does basically the same scenery-chewing overacting schlock that Tommy Lee Jones does. Comparing this movie to Raiders of the Lost Ark or any other more entertaining action film is ridiculous. The movie suffers from too much over acting and also probably could have used better writers .Tommy Lee Jones though is just not up to the task for this movie he doesn't have the acting chops nor the personality or charisma to pull off such a role and I don't think even today he would be able to pull it off he is just not that type of actor. I will say over all that the movie is worth a watch , just don't go into it expecting more than a bubble-headed type swashbuckler if you want to see another movie that's like this one check out 1978 swashbuckler with Robert Shaw. 5/10