Picks and Pans Review: The Island

UPDATED 01/17/1983 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 01/17/1983 at 01:00 AM EST

ABC (9-11 p.m. ET)

Club Med was never like this. Reporter Michael Caine is captured, tortured and otherwise degraded by a band of seafaring Hell's Angels who've been plundering and sinking ships in the so-called Bermuda Triangle. Plausibility, coherence and taste are also deep-sixed in this 1980 film abomination based on Peter Benchley's best-seller.

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