A tired trilogy

Rating: 7/10 (25 May 2007)

I must say, I didn't go into the theater expecting much. After the mild disappointment I was left with after Dead Man's Chest, I was willing to accept that this trilogy was going the way of the Matrix films, an incredible first film, and then two rather bland sequels. And I was partially right.
Johnny Depp seems to be back at the forefront of this film, and the camera is focused on his antics throughout. Although, in my opinion, they're starting to become a bit...repetitive? Although he shows a few scenes of compassion, he's still the same bumbling pirate we've watched for 6 hours prior, and the current 3 hours start to leave him a bit stale.
Many of the action sequences feel very sloppy. You can never really tell what's going on. If a group of pirates board a ship, the camera is either so far pulled out, or so zoomed in that you can't really tell who's whooping up on who. You just kind of assume. The fight sequences in general are just sort of sloppy.
The story lines are all tied up in a nice little bow by the end, and for that I commend Gore Verbinski. Every character's story follows it's course, and we get to see where everyone winds up, and why. My only problem with the plot would have to go to a scene involving a lot of crabs and an intense storm, but these scenes take place near the end of the movie, when the viewer is too busy trying to piece together the action to be distracted.
Oh, and Johnny Depp's trippy hallucinations are pretty awesome.