SummaryRobert Louis Stevenson's classic story is retold in the two-part movie on Syfy with Eddie Izzard as Long John Silver, Elijah Wood as Ben Gunn, and Donald Sutherland as Captain Flint.
SummaryRobert Louis Stevenson's classic story is retold in the two-part movie on Syfy with Eddie Izzard as Long John Silver, Elijah Wood as Ben Gunn, and Donald Sutherland as Captain Flint.
The adaption takes liberties with Stevenson's tale that some will find unforgivable. But viewers open to experimentation will enjoy simply seeing if they agree with the choices the filmmakers made in their what-if game.
If for the most part this Treasure Island does not shiver my timbers, at a running time of three hours (four with ads), some things are bound to work, if only by the law of averages.