The night my dog was poisoned.

Rating: 10/10 (12 October 2016)

What an incredible, dashing, romantic and fun-filled adventure was the unexpectedly good film "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl". Johnny Depp's performance is universally extolled and rightfully so however for me the tour de force performance was that of Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa. Rush morphed into an 18th century pirate from the golden-age of piracy and for me his performance is the gold standard for portraying a pirate. Good performances abound in the first installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series (it should have been the first and last but greedy studio executives had to soil a good thing for a buck) it wasn't merely the Depp and Rush performances there was also the performance of lovely and delightful femme fatale Elizabeth Swann (aka. Keira Knightly), the noble and proud Norrington (Jack Davenport), the amusing but sinister Pintel (Lee Arenberg) and many other convincing performances as well. It simply is the epitome of movie entertainment, it's a movie worthy of the price of admission!