What it does right it does right

Rating: 5/10 (20 August 2017)

This is the fifth entry in the long running "Pirates Of The Caribbean" movie franchise and it isn't getting any better. There are definitely good things about this movie but at this point, there are so many of these movies, like "Transformers" they aren't special and decline with age. Of course, they're still better than "Transformers" hee hee. Anyway, this movie features Will Turner's son trying to find a magic trident that will undo the curse put upon Will Turner that caused him to become bound to the Flying Dutchman. I do like the idea of them trying to do something that's important to the story.
The effects are very nice and it's always good to see Jack Sparrow. The problem is that the plot is far too simple and the villain is just lame. It's reached the point where we're just recycling old characters and we don't have any sense of finality or being in a new place. In a long running series, that can get annoying. Will and his wife were so great playing off of Jack but their absence in most of this movie just makes the film awkward. There's more action but certainly a sense of deja vu as it does seem we're just trying to throw everything in for a bigger movie. **