Wasted Potential from a Franchise on It's Deathbed

Rating: 3/10 (14 October 2017)

Setting aside the impressive inflated-budget visuals, Pirates 5 is full of wasted potential. There's flat new characters, a lazy attempt at a Dumbledore-esque character exit, and Depp at his most unlikeable and distant than ever. SIDE RANT: Literally every moment of tension in this movie was threatening Jack Sparrow's plot armor. Need to buy the film time? Throw Sparrow's drunken stupor literal inches from the blade of a guillotine, or on the gallows, or in front of a cannon while the other characters save him. I face-palmed numerous times throughout the film.