Pirates!!!

Rating: 6/10 (25 May 2007)

I loved the first Pirates film,it still ranks as one of my favorite films of all-time which is why it makes me so mad that they made these lackluster sequels.Pirates of the Caribbean:At World's End was a decent movie,but seemed to miss the mark even more than the second one did.
The film starts with Will(Bloom),Elizabeth(Knightley),and Barbossa(Rush) traveling to Singapore to request the aid of the pirate lord Sao Fang(Chow Yun Fat) to go to Davy Jone's Locker and rescue Jack(Depp).
My first big problem with this film was that they finally 'jumped the shark'.They went too big,and handled it in the entirely wrong way.Secondly they tried putting humor in the entirely wrong moments.There were many dark moments in this film and to try and lighten them up they threw in jokes that felt out of place.Because of these two points they destroyed parts of the movie that had potential to be cool,but just came out cheesy and annoying.Another complaint with it was the lack of action,there was very little action in the whole movie,and the little you got wasn't very gripping.Another small complaint was the choppy editing and hard to understand accents.Because of these two reasons I was lost throughout much of the movie not knowing what they were doing and why they were doing it.My last complaint is that the tone of the first film seems to have been completely lost.By the time this film ends it feels like you were watching a completely different franchise just with similar characters.The filmmakers seem to have completely forgotten what made the original so great and entertaining.
Now I know I have many complaints with it,but that isn't to say all was bad.Although he was working with a poorly written script director Gore Verbinski did an outstanding job,and the actors as well,although most of them had hard to understand accents.The real highlight of the film was the marvelous special effects and the superb cinematography.The creative cinematography was definitely the highlight of the film.
All in all it was a very disappointing end to what started out as a great franchise and has ended up as this bizarre,and lackluster film that seems to be in an identity crisis.With a hard to follow story,very little and poor action,and the sheer bizarreness of it all made this film a very bad conclusion.Now it's decent enough to see maybe 1 or 2 times,but after that there is no real lasting impact.
I give Pirates of the Caribbean:At World's a disappointing: 6 out of 10!