An over plotted mess

Rating: 3/10 (29 May 2007)

I have to admit I enjoyed the final hour of POTC3, which was a fun extended swashbuckling sea battle.
But sadly I had to wait through almost two hours of convoluted, confusing, boring and directionless film to get there.
There is a line in POTC3 where a character says of Jack Sparrow "Do you think he plans it or just makes it up as he goes along". Well, I don't know about Cap'n Jack... but it certainly seems like the screenwriters (there must've been dozens of them judging by the inconsistencies) made it up as they went along and didn't feel the need to go back afterwards to tidy up the mess they'd made.
And it's such a pity too. Because the poignant ending and fantastically conceived final battle could have been the crown on the top of a masterpiece; but instead ends up as the cherry on the top of a burnt and mostly inedible cake.