The score was fine, the actors were fine, and some of the sword fights were fun to watch. That's really all I can say in defense of Swashbuckler. It really doesn't have much else going for it.
I feel like this movie drags on for too long at points. Instead of being the fun pirate adventure it should have been, it ended up being this slow drag of a movie. Sure, there's a few jokes, but they don't really land, and sure, there's some interesting characters, but they're never really developed. For the most part, this movie is just dreadfully dull.
Swashbuckler is a good example of why pirate films deserved to be a dead genre for a long time. It's not that this movie didn't commit to what it was trying to be; it's more that it really doesn't have anything worth committing to. Chances are that I will have completely forgotten about this movie in a week or two.
I feel like this movie drags on for too long at points. Instead of being the fun pirate adventure it should have been, it ended up being this slow drag of a movie. Sure, there's a few jokes, but they don't really land, and sure, there's some interesting characters, but they're never really developed. For the most part, this movie is just dreadfully dull.
Swashbuckler is a good example of why pirate films deserved to be a dead genre for a long time. It's not that this movie didn't commit to what it was trying to be; it's more that it really doesn't have anything worth committing to. Chances are that I will have completely forgotten about this movie in a week or two.