Jerry Bruckheimer should walk the plank!

Rating: 2/10 (30 May 2007)

Start filming a movie with NO SCRIPT, huh? I feel bad for Verbinski. The movie suffers because there is no story, nothing more than random scenes thrown together. The actors know it too, they all seem bored with their characters. The once great glory from "Black Pearl" and "Dead Man's Chest" is gone. Jack Sparrow seems bored, Barbossa and Davy Jones have lost their evil edge. A billion subplots are worked out through two hours of expository dialogue to the point where I was checking my watch, just waiting for the final battle. Despite some visual effects and some amazing battles at the beginning and end of the movie, (not to mention a fantastic, and all too short cameo by Keith Richards, the only actor who truly seemed in character), this movie was lacking heart. It's boring, long-winded, and just not enjoyable. To all you people who claim to like it because "It has Jack Sparrow", WAKE UP! It's a slapped together piece of crap because Jerry Bruckheimer is giving Transformers the time it needs to be a decent movie so he can start another franchise. He knows that it he filmed grass growing for three hours and called it "Pirates 4", everybody would pay to see it. I hate it that so many trilogies end on a poor note (except Lord of the Rings), and Pirates has definitely fallen into that "curse of the third."