FROM WHERE I SIT, PIRATE RADIO MISSED THE BOAT.
In the late 1960s, I was an on-air D-J involved with AM radio in the USA. I was intrigued with Radio Caroline, one of the actual pirate stations located on a ship anchored in the North Sea off the British Isles. This film starts with that story in progress. Than we?re treated with scenes that do little to move, or establish, the story. This is not to say that the actors are not first rate, all do a fine job. But that struggle to get that ?deplorable? music on British air waves is continually resisted by the old staid government, until... a-hah, those rogue D-Js go where no radio has gone before: out on the briny deep, and out of reach of British authority. I believe that would make a better story. The splashy finale would have been better served seeing the struggle from its beginnings, rather than wasting story time with a modern day duel between two rival D-Js climbing the foretop, and with a predictable cliche--a young man attaining his first woman. But, that?s from where I sit.