I couldn't watch it

Rating: 1/10 (25 February 2008)

I rented this movie on DVD to watch with some friends of mine...after watching it for about a half an hour, we turned it off and I took it back the next day. To say that it was bad would be an understatement. It was boring, confusing...about every 5 minutes one of us would ask "What the hell is going on here?" or "What just happened?" The plot was beyond confusing and it wasn't making any sense. It wasn't even plausible. It was like watching a compilation of random episodes from several different movies. Several different BAD movies. The acting was horrible. The dialogues were ridiculous...I laughed at Keira Knightley's monologue in one of the first episodes...and it wasn't supposed to be funny. Even Johnny Depp, whom I adore, wasn't good...but then again, what can a good actor do with a horrid script and ridiculous lines? Only so much. None of us could bear to keep watching this "movie", not even to find out where the director, the screenwriter or whoever was responsible for this abomination were going with it. This was probably the first time I didn't even care to learn how the movie ended or what happened to the characters in the end. I simply couldn't bare to watch it. And then I remembered how good was the first Pirates of the Cariibean movie and how much I liked it. Second one was okay, I suppose...But the third one left me wondering how does one go from The Curse of the Black Pearl to this???