Watching Busey in other roles, he's never gonna match his electric and mesmerizing take on Buddy Holly, or of course, be nominated for an Oscar again. Here in this straight to video action pic, with some smarts, but really falling just above an average time passer, his wild and raving performance, galavanting around on his vengeful quest with his ex (the beautiful Bauer) to catch the bad dudes (a terrorist group) who have his kids, is really one of the few highlights to this film, it's nice music score, another one (something you would expect to hear in a t.v. show). Part of the terrorist group, headed by the late Sharkey, one of the great movie villain actors, is his luscious wife (Mulford) who was parading as Busey's girlfriend, prefore, his nightmare began. She takes one too many falls, you could say. Also a tongueless slightly overweight Columbian woman, who you slightly feel sorry for. Their plan is to use Busey's boat an an operative base, only the kids came on board too. Busey had survived, adrift, after going overboard, and washing up on the beach. Location wise, there are some really nice sights, where the ending kind of drags on, as in the final battle between Sharkey and Busey, as his lovable sailing possession goes down like the Titanic. Bauer, a so underused actress, gives a real notable performance as her divorced, suffering wife. She's better than Busey here, his character, I thought, was really a selfish ignorant d..k, especially in his barging start. He's really a jackass, one scene in a taxi, that has him saying to Bauer "How did things get so ugly between us?" was a laughable moment, as was some others, from his pigheaded character. Sharkey again, brings us a real believable nasty villain, you'll love to hate, and hate you will. There's nothing really special about Act Of Piracy, except it's different story, but I guess you could call it semi exciting watch. Mulford in sexy pink lingerie, is a sight to behold though.
