A Franchise In The Verge Of Collapse

Rating: 8/10 (21 October 2012)

Director Gore Verbinski and the crew set sail once again for this, the third chapter in the swashbuckling Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy in this movie entitled,Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.It features Johnny Depp,Orlando Bloom,Keira Knightley,Geoffrey Rush,Bill Nighy,Stellan Skarsgård together with Chow Yun-fat,Jack Davenport,Kevin R. McNally,Naomie Harris,Tom Hollander and Jonathan Pryce.The plot follows Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and the crew of the Black Pearl rescuing Captain Jack Sparrow, from Davy Jones's Locker, and then preparing to fight the East India Trading Company,led by Cutler Beckett and Davy Jones, who plan to extinguish piracy.
Captain Jack Sparrow is hopelessly trapped in Davy Jones' locker after a harrowing encounter with the dreaded Kracken, and now Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must align themselves with the nefarious Captain Barbossa if they hold out any hope of saving their old friend from a fate worse than death. The East India Trading Company and its fearsome leader, Lord Cutler Beckett, have taken control of the ghostly Flying Dutchman and its captain, Davy Jones, and now the baleful Admiral Norrington has taken the helm in a relentless bid to destroy every pirate ship in his path and bring the Age of Piracy to a violent close. Meanwhile, Will, Elizabeth, and Captain Barbossa navigate treacherous waters and face bitter betrayal as they set sail to gather the only army that can stand up to Beckett which is The Nine Lords of the Brethren Court. But Captain Jack Sparrow is one of the lords, and as long as he's stuck in Davy Jones' locker, Beckett and his nefarious armada are sure to emerge victorious. There's still hope, however, if the heroic team that includes Tia Dalma, Pintel, and Ragetti can reach exotic Singapore and convince vulpine pirate Sao Feng to provide them with charts and a ship. But even the powerful Brethren Court may need a bit of help from volatile sea goddess Calypso in order to weather the coming storm. With the entire future of the pirate way at stake, everyone will be forced to choose sides while drifting precariously to the edge of the earth for one final, spectacular battle.
The film provides the thrilling action scenes, but mixes in too many characters with too many incomprehensible plot threads.In addition to that,it is a hearty, bumpy sea marathon.For some viewers, it will be a fun ride.But for others, it will be an ordeal.The plot is not only hard to follow, there seems to be nothing real at stake. Half the characters are already dead, and half the movie seems to involve sword fights with dead people who can't be killed with swords.The entire franchise seems on the verge of collapse, propelled to construct ever more grandiose flights of fancy. Without those sequences, there would be nothing in here.