Amazingly, incredibly boring

Rating: 3/10 (10 July 2006)

When you find yourself in the theater looking at your watch and hoping that a film will soon be over, you know that it has problems.
I wanted to like this film. I admired the first film and thought it was great fun. This film is anything but fun.
It suffers from far too many story lines, in fact, too much of everything. This film equates excess with excellence.
It's too long, too overblown, and too convoluted. I would love to give the audience a test at the end of the film and see how much of the story that they really understood.
I know that no one is expecting anything especially deep. This is a movie that's supposed to be fun. Non-stop action does not equal non-stop fun. The film needed breathing room.
The effects were great; Johnny Depp was fun; and Keira Knightley is enchanting. But the film was amazing, incredibly boring.