It's okay, not great, just okay.

Rating: 7/10 (16 January 2018)

Having watched the first ones in sequence before watching this one, I was fully prepared for the world of pirates, and to start with I wasn't totally disappointed.
The opening sequence was interesting but really didn't explain enough of why the Dutchman was once again cursed to rot, if Will had been doing his duty to escort the dead to the other side as expected.
Then we meet Jack Sparrow again, which is what we were waiting for and the next ten to fifteen minutes were definitely the funniest and best bit of the whole film.
Jack trying to steal a bank, the WHOLE BANK, was brilliant and just what you would expect from his character.
But unfortunately it was spoiled very much by Depp's acting, and for most of the film, the usually calm, mysterious and odd captain Jack Sparrow just seemed like a parody of himself that belonged more in a National Lampoons film than in the real film, whether this was bad scripting, bad acting, or an attempt to give us something different i'm not sure, but I am sure it spoiled the reputation of a brilliant and much loved character.
As for the rest of the film, well trying to recreate the magic of the first one was a fairly good idea, but it was basically knocked off course by one main central point to the plot, Jack had given away the compass several times before in the other films with out a problem, so why? when he did it this time, did it cause the chain of event's that followed.
Continuity was clearly put aside for the sake of story telling and it was such a glaring plot hole some one should be Keelhauled for this abomination in such a fun and marvellous series.
Other than that, it was good to see some familiar old faces accompanying Jack, and some new ones, who I think stood up well and were very well acted as they took over two familiar roles that had been performed very well by very good actors before them.
So I would say over all, it was good and worth at least one watch, but it never really sparked into life like the first three movies did, so let's hope, if a sixth is on the cards, they finally find that missing piece of the treasure!