It's FAR from perfect, but at least it has an auteur vision

Rating: 7/10 (5 September 2017)

I can't help but wonder what kinda franchise this might be if Verbinski stayed at the helm. Not that it would be great by any meansit's certainly still much too convoluted and dark, especially for a Disney film. However, he brought some interesting stuff to the whole affair. The action-adventure scenes here are largely big, giant fun (escaping from natives, sea battles), and the overall look for the world is great (sans the CG tentacles).