Holy CGI spectacle, Sparrowman.

Rating: 7/10 (23 May 2007)

There will be a sequel. If the movie does well in the box office that is, and I have no doubt that it wouldn't do otherwise.
Now that that's said, lets tackle the bad things first: it's too damn long. Literally you they could have trimmed at least 20 or 30 minutes out of the film and it would have been a much tighter and better paced film. And the script ain't as epic as the length tries to make the watcher believe.
Now that that's been said, let me say, that here be an entertaining piece of piratey celluloid. The huge sea battles are done with a huge amount of money and it shows. Ships blow up, ugly creatures pop out from every corner of the earth and so on and so worth, what I be saying here matey, that the sfx are half of this here film, and with out those there would not be a story... at least not as long one. To come to think of it, with out modern CGI wizardry this would have been about 2 hour film, maybe less.
The plot includes a lot of twists and turns, in one point there's a huge race of who's betraying who and in the end, which was drawn far too long, this coming from a man, who thinks LOTR: Return of The King has a perfect ending, might says a lot. I felt it should have ended much earlier than it did, but no... they had to lay the basis for the next possible film, like that wasn't already done.
So in short, it's a good film, perhaps a bit too long, but in the end very satisfying experience.