Utter garbage

Rating: 2/10 (20 January 2018)

I understand that Disney is in to this game to make money. And this movie did make money ... outside the US. And deservedly so ... it's a horrible horrible mess of a plot, terrible dialog, Jack's personality has been reduced to "drunk guy", the new characters are unexciting and lack both chemistry and charisma. Not to mention the complete waste of talent... bringing Kiera Knightly back for a hug and a kiss? I hope she charged them $10M for that.
Disney spent $230M on this picture ... why couldn't they get a decent script? It continues to be my issue with pretty much everything that Disney puts out. Why are their scripts such garbage? It's the cheapest part of the entire production. Why can't they do it better? This script wasn't even that terrible it just needed some good editing. A few tweaks here and there and it could've been great.
So why not do that? Why not hire some good script editors, make a movie that's actually GOOD and make even MORE money? Why not make a movie that doesn't get immediately panned by critics, is a huge splash in the US, and STILL kills overseas? Sounds like definitely the way to go. And yet ...
With this much money there's no excuse to make crap movies and yet Disney has made this their MO. So they have fabulous effects, decent actors, and just sh*t stories. Apparently they don't care.