Ashworth and Raya are trapped in a mangrove swamp, their captured pinnace stuck in mud. Thorne’s frigate is closing in. Raya takes off her coat, ties a rope to a harpoon, and spears a passing crocodile. As the reptile thrashes, she says, "In my village, we call this riding the tempak ." Ashworth stares. "That's insane." She smiles—the first time she's smiled in the whole movie. "Yes. But he won't expect it." They are dragged through muck and shallow water, the frigate overshooting them by half a mile. It’s absurd, brilliant, and utterly believable.
The movie opens on a churning monsoon. Captain Thomas Ashworth (played with grizzled weariness by a pre- Casino Royale Daniel Craig) is being drummed out of the Royal Navy. His crime? Refusing to fire on a sinking pirate skiff full of women and children. His punishment: a rotting sloop, a crew of convicts, and a mission to chart the "empty" waters of the Sunda. pirates movie 2005
A disgraced British naval officer must team up with a fierce Indonesian pirate queen to find a mythical galleon before a ruthless East India Company commander can use its treasure to start a war. Ashworth and Raya are trapped in a mangrove