Good start, good end and so-so in between

Rating: 6/10 (1 June 2017)

It's different than the other PotC movies. Action scenes are less grandiose and less engaging. Jack Sparrow is old and fat. It's not so fun or funny, except at the start and end (and some moments in between). But, that could have created something interesting. It, mostly, didn't.
I guess the biggest problem of this movie is that the "there's an undead crew hunting Jack Sparrow to settle his debt" story was already seen, a little differently, sure, but, basically, already seen. So, it's not interesting. Maybe, had that been avoided, and something else made the "problem" for young Henry saving his father, things would have been different.
While the young pair works better than in PotC4, and, thankfully, we don't have Penelope back or some replacement thereof, that's not enough and they don't mesh well with this fat&old Jack. They have a few moments, but pretty much all of them made it into the trailers.
Barbosa and the new villain, Salazar, are the biggest disappointment. Beside being the critics darlings, for some reason I can't fathom, they are uninteresting, and, for Barbosa, out-of-character. I mean, sure, he's older, too, but, while Jack is still the same man under all that fat and rum, Barbosa seems like some totally different character. Bardem somehow manages to make Salazar be interesting for ~30 seconds. After that, he didn't have to show up, really, just talking about him would have been enough (and actually worked better).
This was obviously made to be a potential end of the series. It would be bad if it were so. There is a room for one final ride that would be fun and funny like the first one, but, a different movie and this could be a good transition to it.