Complex, but well done and entertaining.

Rating: 8/10 (28 July 2014)

I have seen this movie three times and liked it more the second and third times than the first. Indeed it is a movie that you need to see twice, so if you're one of those people who don't like re-watching movies, I recommend that you avoid this movie. If you can follow the alliances and small knot of intricacies in it, the movie is more enjoyable, but it's difficult to do that if you only see it once. This, I believe, is why people who aren't fans of this series are averse to the later pictures. There are so many loopholes that the plot has to get through to reach its conclusion that viewers tend to forget how they all work. I don't find that that sort of thing detracts from the experience, but I'm the type of guy that likes to re- see movies every year or so. The film is very well done, like the others and retains the ability to make most everyone the antagonist at some point and let the viewer decide who to root for. The effects, story, execution, and acting are very good as well as Hans Zimmer's moving and exciting score. Davy Jones makes an almost likable bad-guy, and Cutler Becket is so wimpy and cocky that his demise at the end is just perfect. Jack Sparrow is still wonderfully selfish, quirky, likable, and funny. His conflict over the Pearl with Barbossa comes back in a fun way ("What ARR you doin!'). And Jack's expression when the crabs drag the Pearl away is just classic The pirate lords and their disagreements retain the ideal that pirates are too independent to unite, but manage to anyways. The crew members' roles are not lessened by the importance of the climatic events. The battle at the end over the Maelstrom is excellent. The movie ends in the only way it really could in a way that you don't exactly like, but kind of prefer to the usual happily ever after. I would recommend At World's End to most people who like movies that have a good amount of effort put into them. It's primarily an action movie, but can please people that are partial to several other genres as well. If you are deliberating over whether to see it, I would suggest seeing it with a friend that can explain how it all works out (after seeing the first two of course), or watching it a second time a few months later for comprehension. Overall Rating: 8.6/10