Thoroughly preposterous, and almost as thoroughly appealing, story idea about an investigative reporter who drags along his twelve-year-old son on a probe of fishing-boat disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle, and falls prey to a ragtag band of island outcasts carrying on in the glorious tradition of the buccaneers, or as the reporter picturesquely describes them: "A bunch of assholes playing Long John Fucking Silver." Director Michael Ritchie makes the most of the comic possibilities, rather too much of the murder and mayhem, and not enough of the intercharacter relationships. In the comic vein is a wonderfully warty portrait, early on, of the sort of daredevil airplane pilot that Howard Hawks used to glamorize, and better yet, a full-scale pirate attack on an American pleasure schooner, with cannon shot, grappling hook, and cutlass, culminating in a one-man counterattack by a young kung-fu master who has learned his Bruce Lee lessons all the way down to the hair-raising vocal accompaniment: "Oooh! Ohhh! Eeee!'" With Michael Caine, David Warner, and Dudley Sutton. (1980) — Duncan Shepherd
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