Too long - mind you mind spoiler

Rating: 8/10 (11 August 2006)

The film is too long. It's a roller-coaster of a thousand things happening, all well done, in every department, but it is hard to sit through the 150 minutes. (In Germany most cinemas show the film with a intermission.) I can't wait to see the DVD with another xxx numbers of deleted scenes or even a longer directors cut. Imagine you see the film without the comic situation almost slapstick wise, island sequence in the beginning. Where Capatain Jack escapes the cannibals. Take this sequence out, alt least some 20 Minutes I guess - and you get a much tighter film to begin with. It appears that the film has too many elements in it, and the director "can't kill his darlings". So what's the third part going to be like? Another 2 1/2 hours long? I hope not, otherwise the film is absolutely entertaining.