Where's my control pad?

Rating: 3/10 (28 May 2007)

Now, whenever I say this movie is crap, I usually get told that it is just not my thing. However, I DID like dead mans chest.
Here is the problem. I spent 90% of the movie wondering what the hell was going on, and not in the good "I wonder what will happen here" way. They threw too many conflicts in at once, and you spend the whole movie trying to decipher who is screwing who over, though it wouldn't spoil it to say it is predictable that the good guys will be good guys in the end.
All this film seems to be is an exercise in how good CG can be in a film, and as my summary suggests, there is only so much CG I will endure without having an Xbox pad in my hands. Visually it is fantastic, but it is all for nought when there is no story. The only plus side for me is that Johnny Depp is once again brilliant as Jack Sparrow, although even then (and this is not Depps fault at all), the character flip flops between being a coward and having balls of steel in a heart beat.
The longest 3 hours of my life.