This Third Outing Isn't Sea Worthy, Arghh!

Rating: 5/10 (21 August 2014)

Both "Dead Man's Chest" (2006), and "At World's End" were both shot back to back. With the final outing costing $300 million, you'd expect with a budget that large they were going to go out with a bang and they truly do (Or so we thought). A truly good looking film at least, but it's nothing different than the second one and nothing really engaged me anymore in this series (Though the trailers and marketing were pretty fantastic).
Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), a resurrected Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and the remaining crew of the Black Pearl, plan to rescue Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from Davy Jones' Locker. From there on, all pirates are beckoned to prepare and fight the East India Trading Company and Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), who plans to extinguish piracy forever.
Chow Yun-fat makes his first appearance in the series, one of my favourite Honk Kong actors and his addition was absolutely pointless. Imagine my disappointment in a franchise that is particularly built on eccentric performers, and they under use him when he generally did pretty well with the material on screen.
Apart from that, nothing new is brought into the film. I seriously couldn't care anymore about the characters, the scenarios, bad writing etc. As time went by the movies became visual rollercoasters, but to be fair that's really the only direction they could take them in. Yes, I could want more from it, and most of the finale entries in trilogies nowadays can be a lot worse. It did pretty well in finishing what it started, but it was one of the first times I remember coming out the theatre and all of us feeling underwhelmed.
Final Verdict: Worth checking out if you're curious to see the finale, but nothing really special either. 5/10. It was good while it lasted, until they made a fourth one.