Major continuity problem! Different writer from last 4 films and it clearly shows!

Rating: 3/10 (27 February 2018)

What a terrible way to RUIN this series and Captain Jack all together. Jack is in no way a genius in this movie, has no plan, and never regains his competence. In every other film he's at least a couple steps ahead of everyone, or uses other characters for his own benefit. In this he's a babbling idiot drunk who is given no clever lines and only states what's in front of him. Continuity error is HUGE in this, Jack's "curse" when he "betrays" the compass doesn't exist in the previous films, he gives it away/loses it at least 5 times. In Dead Man's Chest, we're told that Jack received the compass from Tia Dalma, the human form of the sea goddess Calypso. In this film it's his captain who gives it to him before he dies? What a waste there was so much backstory to show and connect here but the writer seemed dead set on wasting everything the previous films have built up for this film. Why they allowed this movie to be made based off a script that wasn't written by the original writers makes me sick to think about. He could have AT LEAST tried to connect this film with On Stranger Tides in some way, I don't see what the problem was with the mermaid character and the religious man, (they had their new "will turner" and "elizabeth swan" characters RIGHT THERE). They did not need to add stupid young adult offsprings of Turner and Barbosa, how awful an idea. It's 2018 and I'm writing this review now because it still upsets me to think about how my absolute favorite franchise was ruined by this awful script. Don't even get me started on the zombie sharks. (This is the "A Good Day to Die Hard" of the Pirates universe, absolute rubbish).