There's boats, pirates, cannons and swords. What do you expect?

Rating: 5/10 (30 May 2017)

This is as average as average can get. There's nothing new in this movie you haven't seen before despite the new characters, which sums them up perfectly. Prison scene, check. Ship to ship boarding, check. Execution escape, check. Barbosa octuple-cross, check. It's all rehashed from previous films, but it's what this franchise is all about. There's a handful of funny/well-done scenes. There's a beautiful and quite creative island scene that makes the rock formations look like the stars and space, a short but memorable moment. This movie is very dark, as in pitch black, really irritating at points as some scenes would have benefited from that glorious Caribbean sunshine. Overall, similar concepts to the previous films with a couple of re-imagining of old ideas. Solid stuff if you like the other films.
Now for him. Jack Sparrow. Strange is the best description. Really poor in the first part of this film. Very hard to understand when mumbling and always seems to be on the annoying drunk side, rather than the funny. Has some funny moments in the middle section and some pretty pedestrian action scenes. The final part of the film is his worst. Depp just loses control. He's constantly screaming and completely helpless. It's awful. Sadly, the figurehead of the franchise was a shadow of his former self in this movie.
Pros: Geoffrey Rush as Barbosa - the man just does his job, good stuff. The new characters slotted in nicely The story is simple enough that everyone's motivations are clear Execution scene and Island scene.
Cons: Johnny Depp - carries on with the decline of his career. Javier Bardem - mumbles, says Sparrow unintelligibly, nonthreatening Too dark The stone lady. WTF. Terrible de-aging.