Disappointing beyond belief

Rating: 4/10 (24 July 2006)

You can't imagine how excited I was about seeing this film - the fact that I even went to the cinema shows how excited I was (I don't like cinemas - not around 'my area' ... other people always annoy me!). Half way through I wanted to leave, by the time it got to the 'fight on the wheel' I was shuffling in my seat and checking my watch every 5 minutes and by the end I was relieved to be able to leave at last.
Not only was this film over an hour too long, it was just boring. Too many set pieces, too little decent dialogue, WAY too much pouting from Ms Knightly and even Johnny failed to deliver.
And do you know what REALLY annoyed me? SPOILER ALERT ... after Jack sent Will to the Flying Dutchman, and Will escaped with the key. He was picked up by a boat. Now, earlier in the film we had spent time with these characters on this boat. We had invested in them. They weren't bad people; they weren't evil. They didn't even seem relevant to move the plot along but we, as an audience, had invested something in them. Then, Will gets rescued by them, and they all die at the tentacles of the Kraken. Does Will experience any remorse? HARDLY. It just seemed completely out of the blue and pointless. Why introduce us to this ship previously if it has no purpose in the plot. Unless it comes back in the third one? Anyway - that's 2 1/2 hours of my life I won't be getting back, thank you very much Mr Verbinski.
BAHHUMBUG