‘The Bluff’ review: Priyanka Chopra Jonas starrer is big on action and low on thrills
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The Bluff combines the swashbuckler movie, the ex-warrior trying to live a normal life drama, and the home invasion thriller. Make that an island invasion: when the pirate Connor (Karl Urban) comes for the ex-pirate Ercell (Priyanka Chopra Jonas), he cuts a bloody swathe.
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The Prime Video original film is set in the mid-nineteenth century. Ercell, formerly known as “Bloody Mary”, has left her past behind and settled on the Cayman Islands with her husband Bodden (Ismael Cruz Cordova), son Isaac (Vedanten Naidoo) and Bodden’s sister Elizabeth (Safia Oakley-Green). Connor isn’t only after the gold that he believes Ercell has – he also has a score to settle with her.
Frank E Flowers, who directed the biopic Bob Marley: One Love (2024), has co-written The Bluff with Joe Ballarini. The script makes cursory references to the practices of slavery and colonialism that have a bearing on Ercell’s past. This aspect of The Bluff might have elevated it above a regular action adventure. But Flowers is in a tearing hurry to bash and burn and blow up.
Sure enough, Ercell reveals who she is – and what she is capable of – roughly in the 22nd minute and is kept busy all the way until the end. With Connor and his posse in hot...