One of the worst films I've ever seen

Rating: 1/10 (14 July 2006)

A day before I went to see it myself, a friend of mine warned me not to go. I went anyway, because I figured the first Pirates of the Caribbean was actually an enjoyable film. I wish I had listened to his advice.
By the time we hit the 2 hour mark, I was thinking to myself: "This could have been over a half hour ago and I could be banging my head against the wall and having more fun." The plot was ridiculous, even by Hollywood standards. For example: "Let's see, Will Turner will strike a deal with a diminutive bad guy in order to save his future wife, who ends up escaping anyway." There was no real character development, or even any sort of resolution.
The last hour or so of the film featured a giant octopus eating a ship for the third time, a long drawn out and boring sword fight rolled into a chase scene, neither of which were entertaining and an ending that offered no resolution to the film and actually felt like a slap in the face.
After the film was finished, my friends and I sat in our seats in disbelief as we felt robbed of not only our $6.50 but our dignity after being tricked into watching a 150-minute long trailer for the next installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. We didn't even sit there long, but we were the last people to leave the theater. It seemed to me that no one there really enjoyed the film enough to sit around through the credits and talk about how much they enjoyed the film. This observation was confirmed on our way out by the overwhelming number of downtrodden faces and lack of smiles among the crowd in the theater lobby.
If I could give this film a 0/10 I would.