Great If You Like Special Effects

Rating: 4/10 (5 June 2017)

The story opens with a now one-dimensional Jack Sparrow lounging inside a bank vault loaded with gold and no explanation how he got there.
Shortly after that, his band of merry-makers steal the entire building and drag it through the streets with a team of horses.
Yeah.
That's as good as it gets.
Forget that they are able to secure the bank vault on a ship after somehow eluding authorities.
Practically every transition from scene to scene in this movie is nearly impossible to follow and frustrating to watch, with a ridiculously stupid finale that made me think, 'Thank God it's over'.
This production is the epitome of what a big-budget (1/4 of a BILLION dollars!) Greedywood movie that has every flashy thing under the sky and nothing of substance.
There is no definable plot. There is no palpable pathos. There is no anticipation of anything to come. Just everybody's favorite drunk mumbling and bumbling about.
The formula is now old and silly.
Oh, but there was an amusing scene featuring a guillotine.