Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (11 July 2006)

The first film in the series was marvelous. This was somewhat less than that. Johnny Depp was as impressive one would expect, and Keira Knightley was also quite good. There were essentially two main problems with the film: 1) The directing. The pacing was way off. Extended lengths of unnecessary exposition were split up with excruciatingly drawn out action sequences, sequences drawn out not simply beyond realism, which would be expected, but beyond humor and patience.
2) The film is essentially a 2+ hour set up for the third film. At the end of the film nothing has really been accomplished one way another.
By no means is this a -bad- movie. But neither was it everything it could have (and should have) been.