The Bounty
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Movie Reviews of The Bounty
Movie Review: Very enjoyable movie with two predecessors
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bounty is an excellent movie that tells the story of the mutiny on the Bounty with a different spin. The H.M.S. Bounty is sent to Tahiti to pick up bread plants to bring to Jamaica so the slaves there can be fed for cheap. As well, the Bounty and its crew will circumvent the world while completing their mission. At first, the Bounty's mission goes off perfectly but soon enough problems arise as tension develops between Lt. William Bligh and First Officer Fletcher Christian. After watching Bligh mistreat the crew, Christian decides he has seen enough and takes matters into his own hand. This story has already been done twice but this one has a much different tone to it. There is something unexplainable about the movie, but it is still very good. The musical score by Vangelis is very well placed to show the rising tension as the confrontation between the two men draws nearer.Mel Gibson is very good as First Officer Fletcher Christian. Taking the role played by both Clark Gable and Marlon Brando is not easy, but he steps into the role very well. Anthony Hopkins' performance as Lt. William Bligh is equally as good. This Bligh is much more sympathetic than Charles Laughton or Trevor Howard although he is very unlikable when he finally does crack. Laurence Olivier and Edward Fox are excellent as two officers at Bligh's trial trying to find out what went wrong. The film also stars Daniel-Day Lewis, Liam Neeson, and Bernard Hill in good roles. The DVD offers the widescreen presentation and a theatrical trailer. This is a very enjoyable movie with an excellent cast and beautiful cinematography in the Tahitian islands. For a new spin on a familiar story, check out The Bounty.
Movie Review: Arrgh! Mutiny's afoot, Captain!
Summary: 4 Stars
Wow! What a great high seas adventure. Countless times retold and in as many ways, The Bounty is the ultimate portrayal of life aboard the Armed Vessel Bounty. An all-star cast, including Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson, Liam Neeson and Sir Lawrence Olivier navigate this film through it's stormy storyline of loyalty lost and mutiny found.
Mel Gibson brings a career-best performance as British Naval Officer Fletcher Christian, who has agreed to sail to Tahiti aboard The Bounty under the command of Lt. William Bligh (Hopkins). Their friendship comes undone as Bligh becomes increasingly intolerant of his crew's behavior while at port in Tahiti. Christian leads a mutiny and sets Bligh adrift. In spite of starvation, thirst and bad sunburn, Bligh demonstates his naval supremacy by sailing his dinghy to a French port, thereby saving himself and the few men who would not mutiny. Christian eventually contends with a near-mutinous crew of his own before finding Pitcairns Island, his final port-of-call before his uncertain demise.
Let me just say that the cinematography of this movie is magical. The scenes at sea and in Tahiti are absolutely beautiful. Hopkins plays convincingly as an over-achieving, demanding ship's Captain. And, contrary to a couple of reviewers, I absolutely loved the musical score by Vangelis. It provided a hauntingly mesmerising theme to the adventure and danger of crossing vast seas in the 1700's.
Well worth watching, this film, 20+years old, is still one of the best naval-themed movies ever. I found it more exciting than Master and Commander. And, the fact it's based on a true story makes it even more irresistable. 4+stars.
Movie Review: Ahoy there, maties!
Summary: 4 Stars
You can't go wrong with a movie featuring a cast with the likes of Anthony Hopkins, Sir Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson, Liam Neeson, and Daniel Day-Lewis--especially when that cast is involved in a remake of the most famous (infamous?) mutiny of all time. Accordingly, THE BOUNTY is a magnificent film, not only because of the acting, but also due to magnificent visuals depicting tropical beauty to harsh brutality on the open sea.
Hopkins is a sensational actor; his portrayal of Captain Bligh--a gruff, by-the-book officer bent on accomplishing his mission and voyage--is compelling and memorable. He doesn't come across as a cold-blooded, raving, maniacal sadist, but as a hard man who exercises bad judgment, yet shows he, too, has feet of clay. In fact, Hopkins's Bligh demonstrates considerable humanity for his men who are adrift with him on the Bounty's launch boat following the mutiny--a launch that will miraculously navigate thousands of miles on the open ocean.
And Gibson puts his own spin on young Fletcher Christian, the most famous mutineer in all of literature. Gibson brings the torment the ship's mate is experiencing to the forefront, but often does it in Gibsonesque, over-the-top style. Neeson, Day-Lewis, and Olivier are all solid in their supporting roles. At two-plus hours, THE BOUNTY only drags (some) when the ship arrives in Tahiti, and the film goes into an inexplicable precipitous lull. But the eye candy at that point more than compensates for this temporary plot breach.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
Movie Review: Sex At Sea: Roger Donaldson's "Bounty"...
Summary: 4 Stars
The premise of this Australian film is to purpose an historically more accurate and plausible explanation for the famed "mutiny on HMAV (His Majesty's Armed Vessel) Bounty." That proposal is that Captain (actually "Lieutenant") Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) was a working class stiff trying to be upward mobil and had basically a working class mouth -- i. e. he was too verbally abusive, not the fictional physical sadist that Charles Laughton portrayed in the 1930s classic.
Moreover like every would-be middle class sort Bligh was a sexual prig of sorts and deeply resented "Mr Christian's" (Mel Gibson) liason with the comely Tahitian chief's daughter -- indeed a hint of suppressed homosexual attraction and jealousy is present. Bligh though is a great sailor and a genuinely brave man; Christian in this film is the self-indulgent one, the upper class "gentleman" who yields to temptation and even a sexual obsession which turns out, it appears, to be rather less rewarding than the "south sea paradise" it may have suggested.
The principals are, as usual, very fine in their roles -- Hopkins is a bit "mannered" as his performances often are but Gibson is straight on, "clean" and Daniel Day Lewis shows up in a supporting role in which he manifests his "darkly" mysterious persona. Wonderful on location scenery and the familiar story is again made interesting and compelling...
Movie Review: Good Bounty
Summary: 4 Stars
I think most people will find this movie very good. Nice scenery and a real "at sea" feel. Captain Bligh had some character inconsistencies to me. I'll leave those for the viewer. In the end, Bligh comes off very well in this depiction, exonerated by the naval court of inquiry in London without reservation. The movie flashes back and forth from the testimony and story. No problem there. The plot lingers too long in the "paradisio" south sea island scenes. They had to get the characters in "love" [sex] affairs with the native women - and one in particular [Christian] takes up much too much time. Chief's daughter strikes out with Christian when Bligh finally rains on the parade. Bligh has his woman provided by the chief as well but he's a prude and lives the incompleted life [the Hollywood weltanschauung].
It's back to sea now fellows and Brit naval discipline sort of thing. Then the mutiny and back to the island for some more love [sex]. That doesn't go this time for the chief sees retribution from the Brits. Hollywood already had milked that one for all it was worth. On to Pitcairne Island, burn the ship, and settle. Good movie and a high recommendation, irrespective of the Hollywood craze for the hedonistic life, as the typical life. Excellent shipboard scenes and a good feel of being at sea in the late 18th century before the mast.