What a boring piece of junk!

Rating: 3/10 (28 May 2017)

Being the fifth installment in a franchise ruined (in my opinion) by its derailed third movie, I didn't expect much. The first movie was an interesting adventure that was entertaining, presented something new, had some amount of depth and mystery to it and that managed to keep all this together throughout the whole movie. After that it got weird and by the third I didn't bother going to the cinema to see it, nor can I watch the movie all the way through since it's too long and boring. They shaped it up in the fourth in my opinion by leaving that particular story-line, and that gave me hopes for this one. At least I expected it to be entertaining.
But I was wrong. This movie presents absolutely nothing new. The plot is somewhat the same as every other Pirates-film so far, everybody's looking for some token while chased by dangerous cursed pirates. It even brings back some old story elements that are shoe-horned in at the beginning and ending and almost have nothing to do with the entire movie. The characters are all the same, though some have been given new names. The villain is basically a ripoff of Davy Jones, he does the exact same things, although in a slightly different manner. I think he's supposed to be scary, but since he tells you who and what he is almost from the start the character just comes out flat and weird. Even the humor has been used so many times before that it comes out boring and almost embarrassing at times. It's what happens when you re-use a videotape over and over again. After some time the tape gets worn out.
And again like in so many other movies these days I'd like to stress: what's with this whole "CGI character" thing that just looks ridiculous and awful? Do the directors and visual effect guys even have eyes? What's wrong with casting real live actors? I know you can't cast a young Johnny Depp, but people will realize it's supposed to be him even if he's played by another guy. Take "Indiana Jones and the last crusade" for instance. Did anyone not get that River Phoenix played young Indy even though he didn't look like Harrison Ford?