Captain Depp has lost the plot(s)......

Rating: 5/10 (4 June 2017)

Captain Salazar escapes the Devil's triangle with his crew and is taking over the seas in search of his long time nemesis, Jack Sparrow.
Jack is approached by a boy who needs to locate the Trident of Poseidon, something he believes only Sparrow can help him find.
Carina Smyth, an astronomer and horologist joins Sparrow's crew to help them find something she believes her father had always wanted her to find.
Jack's only hope is to find the mythical Trident of Poseidon, who's master gets control of all the seas, or so it's said......
The POTC is a strange franchise. TCOTBP was very underwhelming, but every time Depp was on screen, he lit the film up with his presence, and he immediately went from a wonderful actor who picked some wonderful projects, into a megastar.
This carried on with the next three films, which were irritatingly enjoyable, but in hindsight, just for the spectacle, as viewing them on Blu Ray proved that they were convoluted with too much going on, making the narrative almost indecipherable.
But, Depp was still great, and people flocked to see him, rather than the films.
Now it's the fifth entry, and it appears that Depp has lost his mojo.
Gone is the endearing Sparrow that brightened up the previous films, the kookiness feels forced this time, and strangely, Depp just feels like he's a shell, almost that he's embarrassed to be in this as these are really the only films of his that actually make money, and since he's had a lot of bad press of late, it seems like he's begging his audience, rather than entertaining them.
It's thankfully a lot shorter than the other films, and whilst Salazar is a wonderful concept, him and his crew are nothing more than a redux of Barbossa, who makes an appearance only because the writers have thought of a way to bring him back. Honestly, for all,the trouble that the story goes to, it's not worth it, just to bring back a popular character.
Talking about popular characters, Bloom turns up to bookend the film for around two minutes, and Knightley, well, she literally does not have a line.
It's tiresome stuff, the set pieces are pretty mundane, even the much talked about guillotine sequence is pretty laboured.
Paul McCartney turns up as Jacks 'Uncle Jack' so in the POTC world, he is Keith Richards brother, but his scene is so awful, he makes David Beckham look like Daniel Day Lewis.
As always, there is a stinger at the end, and once again, we are treated to a popular character from other films, one that ironically rhymes with Lazy Bones.
It's tepid stuff, offering nothing new to a well worn franchise, but hopefully Depp will go back to his kooky ways and start making some interesting films again.
Not terrible, but not worthy of such a high budget.