At Wit's End, more like!

Rating: 4/10 (28 May 2007)

What a terrible waste this film is.
I approached this film with caution, knowing full well what to expect: mindless action, cheap dialogue and characters thinner than Keira Knightley. These are the trademarks of Jerry Bruckheimer movies. Sometimes it works: "The Rock", "Top Gun". Other times it doesn't: "Bad Company", THIS.
I should've known. After all, the second film took all the charm and wit and just balls-to-the-wall fun of the first film and flung it out of the window, in favour of a convoluted and overlong plot stuffed with needless tangents and frankly boring characters. Except for Davy Jones.
And there's the kicker.
Jones, who clearly outshone any other character except for Captain Jack was menacing in the second film. This one gives him all the venom of a neutered house cat with three legs. Seriously, you'd ant to mercy kill him out of pity after seeing this film---as a matter of fact his ultimate demise was very much pitiful. This film bored me with its extravagant use of expositionary scene that just chugged along at a leisurely pace. It was as if they all knew the money would roll in, so why bother with something exciting and fresh and new, when it can b big. just, BIG. Like really FAT.
What a disappointment. Every half hour or so a glimmer of shiny intelligence burned through the gluttonous mess that is POTC3. But too much dark and dreary story lines bogged it down. Half-asses acting from all but the two leads Rush and Depp reminded us all how childish things were. And the effects only served to rip us OUT of the scenery, not suck us in with all its might as I'm sure was the intention.
Poor Chow Yun Fat. Underused, and when he truly begins to show his acting chops, is then revealed to be a bullying potential rapist, and then killed unmercifully by happenstance. Oh, but not before he gives Knightley the McGuffin, which somehow redeems him in her eyes not two seconds later.
Disney film. Near-rapist. Lots of blood. Something wrong there.
Just like the rest of this film.