Not as good as I expected

Rating: 6/10 (28 July 2006)

I did like this movie...up until the last half hour or so.
Call me a sap, but I like movies with happy endings. I want Will to end up with Elizabeth. Will is a 'nice guy' and through the first film and the first part of the second, Elizabeth stands by her man. The ending, however, indicates that she basically now has the hots for Capt Jack, who has revealed himself so far to be a thoroughly despicable character. Sure, at the very end he does make one valiant sacrifice to head back to the ship...but in the end this does nothing for the ending. In fact, it is very atypical of him, and rather hard to believe. Will, being the nice guy and true friend (although Jack has backstabbed him repeatedly), agrees to go after Jack even knowing that Elizabeth has a thing for him, having seen them together.
Who knows...perhaps they will wrap it up in the third, and this will just be a mediocre chapter in the middle (think Matrix 2). I'm not the writer or the director, but part of me hopes so.