What a heap of trash

Rating: 1/10 (6 October 2006)

Looking at the previous, enthusiastic comments, I wonder whether I have actually seen the same movie. Dead mens chest doesn't even feel like a movie but rather like a sequence of unrelated short episodes crudely forced together. I'd say that the plot holes were large enough to sail the whole of the Spanish Armada through if the movie even made any attempt to explain the nonsensical hops from one part to the other. Thinking about it, nothing in the plot makes any particular sense.
While the first movie had at least some of the swashbuckling adventure air you'd expect from a pirate flick, I found it lacking from the static and mostly dark settings of this one, felt more like a bad horror movie afloat on a studio pool. The special effects are professionally done, but as usual these days they are way overdone. I still wonder why the flying dutchman, originally a legendary ghost, had to look like Cuthullu with a hat. As for laughs and entertainment, I simply fell asleep about one hour into the movie.
I recommend that anybody who likes classic pirate movies or has any knowledge about what a real ship sails like should not make himself suffer through this one.