Pirate...Hello...

Rating: 10/10 (15 August 2003)

This movie had everything in it to be a bad film. An awful film. But it's not: in fact, it's one of the best action-adventure movies of (at least) this and the past decade. Johnny Depp is over the top but hilarious as capt. Jack Sparrow. He seems to be out of balance everywhere he gets; hence the swaggering. To compensate for his eccentric behaviour, we get Orlando Bloom's Will Turner: he plays it straight but gets the girl - Keira Knightly, not doing to bad herself. Geoffrey Rush's performance is not as extravagant as Johnny Depp, but he does a great job at it anyway. The extra's are good too, and though the plot story is a bit thin (!), the gags are great (one word: fork), and even though it lasts for 2,5 hrs. it never got boring for me. Highly recommended.