Fun but a little disappointed!

Rating: 6/10 (6 July 2006)

Great set pieces, great actors and a plot that made sense (I think), visually good to watch and generally has all the components of a great movie.
However, I'm just out of the cinema and I feel a little hard done by. I don't have the - Oh My God, I have to see that again - feeling that some films give me.
In general I enjoyed it but I just feel that everything was taken to the point where it was working and then pushed to see if it could get any better. In doing this it actually made It slightly worse. Cpt Jack for example - In the first movie you really wanted him to win. Every time he was on screen I felt myself moving towards the edge of my seat, wanting to see what he would do next. This time he juggles with the old good Vs bad, light Vs dark storyline and makes decisions that I feel he as a character would never make. I felt let down by him. Also his little quips that made him so lovable in the original began to get on my nerves ever so slightly.
As I said the Actors did a great job, Bloom and Keira as usual are very watchable. However they gave me no reason to think they even liked each other let alone are ready to wed! ...
All in all the movie is watchable and I will go and see the next one just to see what happens. But alas, I feel a little short changed. Could have been so much better.
Class report, 6 out of 10 - If it were to get it's head down and work a little smarter, it could achieve great things.