The Bluff assessment – Priyanka Chopra and Karl Urban thrill in John Wick Pirates | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Almost a decade on from the final Pirates of the Caribbean movie and Hollywood has lastly made one other swashbuckling journey.

Only this time it’s an motion thriller with all of the bloody violence of a John Wick film.

Bollywood magnificence Priyanka Chopra Jonas stars as Bloody Mary, a retired pirate who has discovered peace within the Cayman Islands together with her husband, son and sister-in-law in the course of the mid-Nineteenth century.

That is earlier than her outdated captain Conner (a really serious-looking Karl Urban with a dodgy Irish accent) invades the tranquil Caribbean shore in search of revenge and a chest of buried treasure.

Produced by Avengers Endgame’s The Russo Brothers, this straight-to-streaming B-movie-esque flick could also be tough across the edges, however is completely entertaining.

Priyanka pulls no punches in her thrilling and brutal motion sequences, stuffed with sword slashing and musket firing. Taking a leaf out of James Bond’s guide within the third act of Skyfall, Bloody Mary and her household hunker down in Cayman Brac’s Skull Cave with its bluff shelters and put together for the oncoming assault. There, they boobytrap the crevices, able to blow up the invading hoard of buccaneers bent on capturing the previous feminine pirate lifeless or alive.

Among the John Wick-style “ooos” and “aahs” are the inventive combat sequences with no holds barred – there’s a large alligator that’s very hungry and one man is blown in two by a cannon. Yes, it’s all a bit trashy, however in the perfect and most explosive approach potential.

The Bluff is streaming on Prime Video from Wednesday February 25, 2026.