The Bad Guys

Rating: 10/10 (26 May 2007)

I don't want to say a word about Jack the Sparrow (sorry, CAPTAIN Jack)- he is neither better nor worse than in the Deadman's Chest and visibly worse than in the first film. I don't blame screenplay writers, but I'm afraid there's too much of this funny guy in the film to find him really funny. When he was wounded (mortally, as we thought) in the first film, the whole cinema hall cried: NOOOOO!! I doubt if there were people today to cry for Jack again.
At World's End reveals two great characters, brothers in iniquity, Lord Becket and Davy Jones - and they were the main reason for me to hold the attention till the end. A good villain is a half of every successful story; and here we have two great villains. As well as we see under the monstrous mask of Jones the human soul deeply wounded with love and betrayal, we also see the cold cruelty under the soft and comely face of the lord; discovering their inner essence they become more interesting than any good guy (although all good guys and girls become bad ones during the film - at least for a while). And they both have something deeply hidden that we can't expect from them. There are almost painful and heartbreaking episodes - a single brilliant tear falling from the eye of Davy Jones and the superhuman and admirable tranquillity in which lord Becket meets his bitter end. Both of them are doomed since the previous movie; each and every watcher wishes them dead, but they do not die without attempting to reach their goal however distant it may seem. I love the brilliant Englishness of their play, especially Hollander with his haughty smiles and beautiful dispassionate eyes, his tea-times on the very edge of his final battle and his slight to the others. He is a bad man, maybe, but a faultless machine. My type of best movie villains.