Good movie in general, but terrible Pirates movie overall

Rating: 6/10 (30 May 2017)

On the whole, it wasn't a terrible movie. If you don't know the franchise, then watching this is kind of cool. This in itself is kind of a backhanded compliment as it's not a good sign that you don't have to watch the previous movies to be on board with this one. Some scenes might be confusing, but overall, you'd be fine.
On the whole, it's an action movie. Simple plot, simple characters, simple goals. They didn't , in my opinion, destroy the characters that they'd built over these past 4 movies.
All this being said, it was a bad Pirates of the Caribbean move! There was no character growth, the motivations for the characters were weak, and the new characters and possible plot points were discarded. Given what we've come to expect from a Pirates movie, this movie was so basic and simple. No new mythology or even no diving in the treasure of mythology that they've already created. I was SO disappointed in the Poseidon's Triton. They found it and destroyed it so easily and quickly. What was the point?!
PLOT ISSUES RANT: Sure it broke all sea curses, but what does that mean? Will there be no new sea curses? Especially given the Davy Jones post-credit scene. What gives? He was dead! Now he's not? As far as I saw, the Triton didn't bring back people to life that had been cursed by/at the sea. If it had brought him back, wouldn't he have been a normal human like Salazar? And what of the witch character Shansa? She seemed like a bad-ass character with whom they did very little and gave basically no backstory. How do they go from On Stranger Tides to this?! This is not to say that On Stranger Tides wasn't without it's issues, but at least it wasn't so simple.
My overall thoughts are that it was a good movie, but a terrible Pirates movie as it ignored the characters and mythology that it's created in favor of a simple sea action movie with ghosts.