it feels like a movie desperately clinging on to the past and being all the worse for it.
what this all boils down to is that if "against all flags" had been made a decade earlier it probably would have been the enjoyable pirate adventure movie it should have been. but like a lady getting on in years who over does the make up and outfit to try and look young "against all flags" ends up coming across like a desperate attempt to cling on to past glories. 