As a number one fan, I was disappointed

Rating: 5/10 (7 June 2017)

I'm a big Pirates of the Caribbean fan. Have been from day one and always will be. I was the type of girl who corrected people when they talked about Jack Sparrow to tell them it really is 'CAPTAIN' Jack Sparrow. I have a miniature statue of Captain Jack in my room and had three posters of the three first movies. So you guys will understand how much I was looking forward to seeing part 5 of POTC.
So I went to the theater, all excited to see my favorite pirates at work again. The beginning was fun and entertaining, as I'm used to with all the POTC movies. But as the movie went along, my enthusiasm shrunk like the contents of a bottle of rum. Captain Jack wasn't the same captain I know from the previous movies. He was trying to be witty, like the whole freakin' movie. Do not get me wrong, I like witty Jack (reference right there), but I also like the serious and cool Jack. The tough Jack, who fights for his friends, even though it seems like he fights solely for his own good. The Jack I know, wouldn't make a remark like he did in the final scenes of this movie (spoiler alert! Will and Elizabeth are back together at the end of the movie and they kiss and are happy. Jack makes a remark about how horrible of a sight that is. The Jack I know would just smile and then look at his crew and yell at them). Because Jack is the main reason I love the movies, you can see how disappointed I was in him not being the Jack that I loved so much in the previous movies.
Overall, the movie just didn't really give me the POTC feeling I got from the previous ones. It just didn't have that touch to it, the sparkle that made the last movies so good. Even 'On Stranger Tides', which I didn't really like either, still gave me more of a Pirates feeling than this movie did. Yes, some of the old characters are back, like Gibbs (who leaves Jack for a lack of gold, which seemed a bit weird to me) and Marty. Still that doesn't make it work for me either. It just misses something.
The camera work was great though, as well as the special effects. Javier Bardem is really good as the spooky pirate who, like many pirates out there, wants to have his revenge on Captain Jack Sparrow. The music was great as well, as we are used to from POTC. I also liked Brenton Thwaites and Kaya Scodelario as the new love couple, although they could never replace Keira and Orlando as the ultimate love couple. Of course Geoffrey Rush was great as ever as Captain Barbossa.
All in all, the movie is pretty enjoyable, just not so much for hardcore Pirates of the Caribbean fans, who will feel a bit betrayed after the long wait of 6 years for a new movie. So, if there are any other huge POTC fans out there, don't get your hopes up.