Fast, funny and quality entertainment. Depp is amazing!

Rating: Null/10 (11 August 2003)

This film was without a doubt entertaining. The film held it's own and was not carried by special effects or actors. However, Johnny Depp's performance as the slightly camp constantly drunk Captain Jack Sparrow is without a doubt one of his best. Bloom proves he's not just a pretty-faced, pointy-eared elf, and gives his character a believable depth but was sadly out-shone by Depp.
The film's length is just right, I wasn't sitting there wanting it to end, and it didn't cut it's self short. As good as this film was I don't think it wise to do a sequel, the ending it has is good, and trying to get another film out of it would spoil the originality of this one.
This is the first pirate film to be brought into the 21st Century and will be a hard one to top.