![]() The fast-paced editing cutting between the three groups is like a pinball just bouncing around rapidfire. The villains, who are government officials and soldiers with stern faces, feel like they're in a more serious historical epic in a completely separate movie. Lead actress Han Hyo-joo is the cool-headed captain leading her crew of misfits and fools. Lead actor Kang Ha-neul's bandit screams his lines with big gaping laughs into the sky like a possessed cartoon character, or a younger Korean version of Toshiro Mifune from Seven Samurai. only to be saved by them slamming against a ship's sails. The tone is part-cartoon, part-wuxia and part-historical epic where whales swallow people and shoot them out of their blowholes. Or in some ways, it may be easier to think of it as a live-action cartoon with attention-deficit disorder. The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure is one wacky motion picture. With its rising popularity around the world, I was doubly curious to see what a South Korean pirate movie would be like. Pirate movies are practically an endangered film genre. Movies made at sea are rare and far between. ![]() When I saw a brand new South Korean pirate movie on Netflix, I was immediately intrigued. It is nothing we haven't seen before but has an entertaining infectious energy if you go along with it. ![]() ![]() The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure is a wacky, high-octane swashbuckling adventure full of cartoonish action and silly gags. ![]()
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