A pile of Caribbean rubbish!

Rating: 4/10 (6 August 2006)

I must say i was, very, very, VERY disappointed with this movie. This coming from a guy rating the first as 8 out of 10. Good reviews, nice cast just more of everything this time, they said.... Unfortunately the story is a mess. Not that its hard to follow, but it takes a lot of jumps, and many times the story feels rushed, which really shouldn't be nesecery when its a 2 parter, and number 3 was already written! The acting is the same, but rushing the story and trying to fit so many angles, leaves no time to learn more about the characters, let alone feel for them in any way. Its like you just don't care when something bad happens to them. The one i found myself rooting for was the impressively made Davy Jones. Bill Nighy has, since Underworld, always burned his way through the screen with such force, that it just takes your breath away! The rest of the cast is easily forgotten though. Kiera Knightly, usually a fine actor all the way, could easily have been cut out. Even Jack Sparrow suffers from under exposure due to all the little stories they try to throw in. Will Turners meeting with his father is a typical example. There's no buildup, so no wow feeling. Sequels in trilogies are usually the strongest, empire strikes back and matrix reloaded, to name but a few, but I'm afraid this will go down in history as one of those movies you forget minutes after you've seen it. In the end you find yourself just wishing it would end, and even though its an open ending, you would be better of skipping the final episode as you just don't care.. In a word : Disappointing.