My Cultural Diet

My wife loves stories about lady pirates as well as stories about people who’ve gone legit only to be forced into pulling off one last job. Thus, a movie about a former lady pirate who must call upon her piracy skills when her former captain comes a-calling seemed like an absolute no-brainer for a Friday night. And for what it’s worth, Priyanka Chopra Jonas certainly gives it her all as Ercell, the aforementioned lady pirate. And Karl Urban is appropriately slimy as the aforementioned former captain. But for all of their efforts, The Bluff is never more than the sum of its parts, not even when Ercell is slicing, dicing, slashing, and filling her former comrades full of lead. Unfortunately, much of that action takes place at night or inside darkened caves. Which, when combined with the sort of overly kinetic editing that’s unfortunately become the standard for today’s action movies, means that The Bluff is mostly forgettable.

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