Someone kill Bruckheimer

Rating: Null/10 (3 December 2003)

Why oh why does Jerry Bruckheimer keep pumping out this kind of mindless drivel?
He's the most successful producer in the history of film making and instead of making thoughtful, intelligent, meaningful films with some vague semblence of a story he continues to slap these action packed, special effects driven dirges together. It's a formula he's used since Top Gun and it's obviously very successful but I've always felt that we the audience are just treated as mindless idiots.
I need more than that. I need more than special effects, more than loud music, more than a cliche plot and dialogue and this movie has all of the above.
Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom...Guys, what were you thinking? They must have been thinking $$$$ which is fair enough I 'spose. When the most "successful" producer in the world asks you to appear in a film, how could you resist.
It's a formula we've all come to expect: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. Boy kills a few special effects ghosts along the way. Yawn!
I rate it 3 out of 10.