too much, too long, so boring

Rating: 5/10 (27 December 2007)

'Pirates of the Caribbean' series is a demonstration that not every good idea should be turned into a three series epic. Sure, the series were commercially successful, but the result was not at all satisfying on my taste. What started as a good epic, with with a great key idea, with a charming mix of history, legends and humor filmed in exotic places continued in the second and third installment with more and more visual effects, but the story simply was not here. More characters showed up in an attempt to create a sea and pirates mythology, rules of life and death were broken freely, so by the end almost every character seems to have died at least once, but a clear line of conflict is completely missing, and that the result is very difficult to follow. Actually even if you follow it I have the impression that it does not really help, because at the end it is not clear what the big conflict is about. The whole series 3 is built to prepare a battle magnificently filmed and computer-simulated, but what are they really fighting for? The film deserves Oscars in a few technical categories, but none in the art ones. I was tired and bored at the end of the film, and I am happy to not hear news about series 4.