Pirates of the Caribbean: A Worst End

Rating: 5/10 (25 May 2007)

First off I I want to say that my voting was done bearing in mind the greatness of the past two movies and the level of expectation I had. As a movie on its own my rating might have been slightly higher.
I just came back from the movie theatre . . . and I have to say that I have been extremely let down. This movie just was not of the same caliber as the other two. The acting was incredible, the cinematography was impeccable, and the witty/slap stick humor was hysterical as it always has been, but in the end the plot (for me) just ruined the movie. The movie wasn't too hard to follow. Yes there was a lot of betrayal and new plot twists; nothing that you couldn't eventually grasp. The plot just didn't thrill me as it has before. Not to say that it did not have its good moments (the marriage/sword fighting scene I particularly liked) . . . but that is all they were, just moments. Overall I felt very disengaged form the movie, constantly telling myself things will get better and I'll be able to "get into it" but it never happened. Many scenes seemed superfluous, boring, or just strange. The way they handled scenes and plot issues I found just . . . awkward. For instance Sparrow's hallucinations of himself and the rock-crab scene were just uninteresting and weird. A direction the movie just did not need to go. And Calypso's giantess to crab scene was also just as weird and awkward. Overall I found the movie just lacking in comparison to the other two; an upsetting end (or addition???)to the Pirates saga. (Maybe I expected too much?)