Bloated final chapter w/Capt. Jack ; final third makes up for the largesse

Rating: 7/10 (30 May 2007)

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END (2007) **1/2 Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Bill Nighy, Chow Yun-Fat, Jonathan Pryce, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Kevin McNally, David Bailie, Stellan Skarsgard, Tom Hollander, Naomie Harris, Martin Klebba, (Cameo: Keith Richards) Bloated continuing and  presumably  final chapter in the ginormous global cinematic franchise with Captain Jack Sparrow re-vived and released from Davy Jones' Locker  to aid his pirate chums in an unlikely alliance using the Flying Dutchman to defeat the British in their unholy alliance with their nemeses in the control of the shipping lanes that is rather convoluted to follow  and just plain too much talk  while the characters' interchanging double, triple & quadruple crosses gets badly handled in this disappointing offering despite its game cast and the final exciting third with some truly imaginative visual effects (i.e. Calypso's Hell-Hath-No-Fury- Like-A-(Giant)-Woman's-Scorn and yup  Richards as Depp's poopdeck pappy (Dir: Gore Verbinski)