Well Deserved Praise

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This is one of those movies that makes me mad because I had to struggle through it and then was left with a non-ending. It's a Romeo & Juliet-ish story following a young fisherman (Orlando Bloom) and the daughter(Zoe Saldana) of a powerful island family, who fall in love much to the displeasure of the girls brother. It's an okay drama that ends up being very frustrating as I have no idea what happened to anyone, it just ends with no resolution. Does Shy get his girl? Does he get caught? Does he die fishing on Friday the 13th? What about Bill Paxton, did he get away with the loot? Did his daughter stay on Cayman?Anyways. I had been curious to see this since it takes place in the Cayman Islands and I lived there for 4 years. This version of CI however is very different to my experiences while there. It was fun to see some familiar sights but I never did see any Caymanians just Jamaicans and other ex-pats playing the part. I also had a hard time believing these characters were in high-school. Red Sail sports is transformed into a fishing charter. 09.13

After reading the great praise for this incredibly horrendous film by most of the members here, I got so freaked thinking I had a brain tumor or something worse, that I went back and read 42 film critiques take on this piece of junk, and not ONE disagreed with me.Most of them dug a deeper hole and those who didn't, missed a few of the errors which all of the naysayers here had included...I have never done this and was so grateful for the opportunity to stick to my guns and remind myself that most people have absolutely no idea about the film-making process,and to add to that, no taste. Set in what should be a fascinating locale, the Cayman Islands, whose main industry or purpose is supposed to be a place where billions of dollars are secreted away for all kinds of reasons by all kinds and types of moneymakers and, to my recollection, has never been used as a location for a film before. The story line is a pretty basic one which starts out as Bill Paxton is making a hasty departure for not all too clear reasons. There then follows a collection of sub plots which are intermingled and even have nothing to do with Paxton's dilemma. There are children of crooks, and children of locals who cause havoc and trouble within the story as we follow a young man named "Shy" who works doing simple tasks at the local yacht harbor, and makes the mistake of having a tryst with a powerful man's daughter whose brother punishes with the old acid in the face retribution. From there, all of the artsy editing and time jumping back and forth becomes so irritating that you do not know what line of crime is the one which is supposed to grab you. Not one got to me and the one thing I am really curious about; what are the Cayman Islands like geographically and culturally? It could easily have been filmed in Beverly Hills and Malibu, or for my tastes, not at all. Orlando Bloom is not strong enough to carry a film and for those who think he is astonishingly handsome and dashing, must be teens or fans left over from his luck being cast in "Pirates" and that other series of blockbusters.Altogether,this film is a contrived and artless mess.Also, it seems that there were a lot of people here who were at the same screening in Toronto and ALL seemed to love it including a brother in law of the director.

From the producers of "Crash", this non-linear narrative style movie takes place in the Cayman Islands. Orlando Bloom is caught in a forbidden love affair with an island black girl who's family is dead set against it, threatening not only the affair but his life. Bill Paxton is a rich American who has to flee Miami with his daughter because the feds have caught up with his money laundering in the Caymans. He relocates there quickly but soon becomes involved along with his daughter in some of the nastiness involving the locals. The movie shifts back and forth in time, sometimes repeating scenes towards the end, as all the action and finale happens on a Friday the 13th. Pretty good story, I enjoyed it very much.

I thought I had written a review of this travesty of a movie.There was absolutely nothing worthwhile in it . I agree with the last reviewer its too much nose candy.They use a hand held camera to the extreme, I have seen better hand held camera work on "youtube."The acting is second rate by a well known cast.I will not insult them by naming them, same for the director & writer.This was filmed on the beautiful Cayman Islands,It should have been done on the Santa Monica beach, that is how much it looked like the Caymans.Rating * (out of 4) 25 points (out of 100) IMDb 1 (out of 10)