Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

carmineclarke85 I know this is coming more than 7 years late, but no worries.I watched this one several months ago and completely forgot about it until after I watched 'Blackbeard: Terror at Sea', also a UK TV movie, which was released one week after this one on the 10th September, 2006. I came looking for the cast of Terror at Sea and came across two conflicting films from the same month and year and realized I had in fact watched this one as well and wasn't so impressed.This 'Pirates: The True Story of Blackbeard' truly is a 'mummers farce'(to borrow from Game of Thrones). Okay acting and costuming but terrible story line and characterization, that seems more fiction than anything, made for simple minded audiences to believe. If you want more accuracy and less swashbuckling fiction type storyline I suggest looking at Blackbeard: Terror at Sea. It is narrated by Hands as if he wrote Blackbeards memoirs (not sure how accurate that is) and much better acting, with character focus and realistic storyline all round. It is more documentary style with the narration this way. Some of the music, especially at the beginning, is a little annoying with the narration, but maybe it was a poor audio version I watched, but when that drops off and they really get into the story. Blackbeard is certainly a character you love to hate and hate to love.

rowan_h Really, Its hard to find words for how bad this was. I lasted half an hour and then I just couldn't stand any more. Its not just that the acting and script were bad, and they were, the setting, costumes and general atmosphere were so wrong that a bad film failed even to transport you to the world it was meant to portray which might at least have made me watch a bit more of it.I was put off right at the beginning by Edward Teach (Blackbeard) having a Scottish accent when of course he was English. Angus MacFadyen can act English why didn't he? Stacy Keach looked embarrassed as well he should and Richard Chamberlain tried to rise above it but his costume prevented him. Thailand does not look like the West Indies and the Thais don't look like African slaves.the acting was truly awful and the script sounded like a teenager had written it after watching a few old movies. The costumes were particularly awful. Richard Chamberlain's looked like a High School pantomime costume and the wigs looked as if someone had once seen a picture of an English lawyer and tried to reproduce it from memory with cotton wool. About the only decent thing in it was the ships and the at sea sequences where at least they'd spent a bit of money.I know it was Hallmark but they can do an reasonable enough job, Moby Dick was OK, this was bad, bad, bad. So bad I felt insulted and bitterly resented the rental fee. If you're thinking about watching it don't, just look out the window for an hour its bound to be more entertaining.

sunset25013 It's a little disgusting how little people actually research a subject before they make a movie on it. It guess that some writers feel that fact just isn't important, and it's a shame the actual history behind Black Beard is far more interesting than this mockery. Very few things in this movie is even close to the actual events. It's a shame that North Carolina doesn't even have a single part in this, but i guess the people who shot the movie was more interested in shooting in different locations. It's not even closely accurate about where Blackbeard was captured... last time i checked Ocrocoke Island didn't have the mountains that were shown in the movie. Even worse that they cut out the Governor of Virginia altogether.

margaret-142 I enjoyed the acting, the scenery and the overall effects and attempt at an enjoyable FICTION pirate movie. This was not a movie about the real Blackbeard, however - even though it supposedly IS about his encounter with Robert Maynard. There were some redeeming qualities, but two scenes seemed totally out of place - one being a rescue scene in town where shades of Errol Flynn appeared. The other was the ending. Though the movie was entertaining at home, the historical value leaves much to be desired as the location of the story during the ending is totally inaccurate. All historical accounts of the demise of the pirate and the ship discuss the location as off the coast of North Carolina - a place much celebrated as the last place of the infamous pirate - not in the Bahamas.