Jerry Bruckheimer, Please, please go away.

Rating: 4/10 (25 May 2007)

Ever since South Park started to parody actions films, I have not been able to take any of them seriously. I laugh every time I see something being blown up on screen for no real reason but to fill out a weak storyline. Tray and Mat perfected this with Team American, World Police, within the opening scenes blowing up most of Paris.
They came to this by thinking, " What would Jerry Bruckheimer do?". Now you might be wondering what this has to do with Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End?. Well this film has the mark of Jerry Bruckheimer all over it and its not something to be proud of.
This film has a very weak story and tries to make up for it with silly drawn out action scenes. It can be very confusing at times as there are too many sub plots going on in the background. I started to lose interest and my mind wondered while watching. Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are both still blocks of wood without any real emotion on screen. I suppose its not all their fault as they had some very dodgy dialogue to deliver on screen. Geoffrey Rush and Bill Nighy give the best performances stealing a lot of scenes they shared with Johnny Depp.
I never liked the first film and found it to be bland, yet Johnny Depp's original performance made me sit all the way through it. I thought to myself this is another great role that Johnny can put under his belt. By the second film though his character was starting to annoy me and by this film I was just so tired with him that I hardly noticed him on screen.
The opening scene of the film reminded me of Return of the Jedi when Luke and friends go to free Han Solo from the evil clutches of Jabba the hut. There were other scenes in the film that also reminded me of other films which are too numerous to mention here.
Now I know that lots of people will disagree with me and love this film after all I have just given you my opinion and thats all it is. I know that different things appeal to different people. These days I like to get something more from a film than what I got when I watched At Worlds end. But hey if you want to see Johnny Depp running around as a camper Keith Richards and lots of silliness then this is the film for you.
But if you are like me and you think that action films with weak plots and dodgy dialogue should have remained in the cocaine fuelled 80's, where they belonged, then this is not the film for you.