Over-rated, Over Budget and over the top!

Rating: 1/10 (18 February 2007)

I'm probably one of the only people who didn't like this film but hey. This film is exactly what it says on the tin, A DEAD MANS CHEST! The makers of this prune juice spent more time spending money on making it look dramatic instead of sitting down and giving it a plot that manages to excite me. Once again we have Johnny "pretty boy" Depp demonstrating how acting in this film clearly is out of his Depp, all the guy does the whole time is shake like a junkie and come out with rubbish lines like "yeh sorry mate" which seriously arn't funny. He claims he based his character on Keith Richards, though in my opinion Keith Richards isn't a flaming pirate! Girls constantly rave on about how fantastic he looks in this film, though I think he just looks like he was bought in from under a railway bridge attempting to recite Gypsy King Songs on his guitar. Anybody could have played "captain jack pinhead" and pulled it off well. The only "Hollywood heartthrob" who actually bothered to act in this film was Orlando Bloom, if you can get past his constant dramatic shouting. All the other cast played their roles out fine; they weren't the people responsible for putting the music up so loud that it actually gave me a headache.
I was privileged enough to see the special features on the DVD. It clearly demonstrated how much money they wasted and to top all the off, they started putting props and sets together without even knowing what the story is! They then go on to mention how they want to trim off $2million from their already ridiculously too high budget. Don't get me started on how over the top the special effects were.
Now I can see why people like this film, but I just think it's one of these films that have way too much money spent on them "High-profile" in this day in age is "high-budget" and high budget seems to always make a film very tedious. If you're old fashioned like me and want a decent storyline with dialogue that is actually thought out, with characters you can get to know well. Then for god sake man, STEER CLEAR OF THIS FILM!