Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Rating: 5/10 (28 May 2007)

"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" provides some entertainment at the moment you watch it, but that's it. It is just an utterly forgettable film, the day after you've seen it you might not even remember what it really was about. All that stays in mind are some of the images and effects, and we have very often seen in the past few years that this is too less for a film with 145 minutes. Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow is surely the reason, why this film works at least on the humorous level some times, but also the fun factor does by far not reach the heights of the fresh "The Curse of the Black Pearl". The actors all deliver respectable performances, but the script doesn't really give them anything more to reach for. Gore Verbinski seems a little bit like a leasing worker who can make good work ("The Ring", "The Curse of the Black Pearl"), but only when he is given really good source material.