Disappointing Ending to a nice trilogy

Rating: 4/10 (7 December 2007)

Disappointing ending to a very promising series of films. The plot gets really convoluted, introducing sub-plots all the time and the characters have major departures from previous offerings. Barbossa is now a nice guy, Will Turner decided to do his Darth Vader impression, Jack Sparrow likes to do the limp wrist and eyeliner thingie and Davy Jones is not the bad ass he used to be. I mean, one scene has him standing in a bucket as to parlay with the pirates. The action sequences try to be great and there is a ton of action going on in any moment but, at least for me, it was kinda safe. You never feared about what will happen, since these are major protagonists and I am sure their agents would not allow them to die on-screen in such a major franchise. The body count on extras is quite high but after a while you will not care. What really ruined this film for me was the lack of a REAL villain. Davy Jones is subjugated to the Director of East India (perhaps the film makers aiming at some "human worse than average demonic monstrosity" cheap shot) and they try to add some humanity to its character by giving him emotions and a new sub plot about how he is loving the Voodoo Lady from monkey island in her next gig. Jack Sparrow not only gets too little screen time but forget the swashbuckling hero of the previous offerings, this is a new Jack Sparrow, overdoing his "gay" impression (with appropriate eyeliner to boot). There is a ton of CGI and more sub-plots than you can shake a stick at and of course a semi-ambiguous ending (be sure to watch the DVD after the credits, the cinema I have seen it in, decided its "lights on" after the directed by credit!!!).