Pirates (2014 film)

The Pirates Hangul RRHaejeok Badaro Gan Sanjeok lit. Pirates Bandits Going to the Sea is a 2014 South Korean period adventure film starring Son Yejin and Kim Namgil.

The Pirates sold 272,858 tickets during its first two days of release, placing second on the box office chart behind The Admiral Roaring Currents. Afterdays in theaters, it became the third Korean film in 2014 to reachmillion admissions. At the end of its run, the film reached 8,665,269 admissions, and also grossed US56,104,937 .The film received mixed reviews from critics and currently holds a 57 rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Martin Tsai of The Los Angeles Times described the film as a derivative trove of swashbuckling action, romance, comedy, special effects and revisionist history which contains typical Hollywood devices, while Nicolas Rapold of The New York Times notes that Neither the action nor the comedy in this action comedy is consistently strong. Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter criticizes the film for its endless slapstick fight scenes and the films special effects but praised the underwater scenes with the whales which he says have a hauntingly ethereal quality. ........

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