At world's end lies this movie

Rating: 5/10 (25 June 2007)

Now Kiera Knightly is getting on my nerves and so is this story line. It is full of double crossing, backstabbing, and lying. I understand that that is what piracy is all about, but I'll be damned if I could keep up. Not to mention that the vagueness of some of what was being mentioned kept me scratching my head because I forgot a lot of what was said in "Dead Man's Chest".
I was expecting a lot more, and I was definitely expecting to understand a lot more. For instance: when did Calypso enter the picture, and how come they never alluded to her existence before? What the heck did she say once she was transformed into the attack of the 50 foot woman? Why did Elizabeth Swann want Jack Sparrow back, she was the one that killed him after all? Why was Elizabeth Swann so clean throughout the whole movie? I thought she was a sister of Legolas the elf from "Lord of the Rings", that guy never got dirty, and Orlando Bloom was in this movie as well. Ms. Swann, for whatever reason, all of a sudden made an excellent pirate and captain, thereby showing her magnificent strength and resolve, or just how overrated pirates really are.
The story tried to insert too much instead of taking the approach of less is best. On top of that they shifted focus to characters I wasn't interested in, namely everyone other than Jack Sparrow. And then, however romantic they tried to make it, the marriage during the battle was just plain dumb, and quite a thrill kill. After a while I really thought the movie was running too long. They could have done with half of the banter and side stories, got rid of Elizabeth's cliché rally speech, and the movie would have been twice as good.