One longs for more scenes featuring Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp's indelible and beloved character in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and less of everything else in this bloated, overwrought and convoluted three-hour misfire.
Depp is in only about half of the movie, which is a tactical error in this third — and worst — installment of the 2003 surprise hit. Instead, the movie is overloaded with extraneous characters and weighed down by muddled seafaring mythology.
But let's be honest: It's all about Jack. He's what made the first movie a hit. And, as a Hollywood dealmaker might put it, the franchise hinges on him. So why crowd the movie with an ever-expanding cast no one cares about? And why run aground a seafaring adventure saga with tedious scenes of a pirates' council as they discuss administrative matters?
Depp is in only about half of the movie, which is a tactical error in this third — and worst — installment of the 2003 surprise hit. Instead, the movie is overloaded with extraneous characters and weighed down by muddled seafaring mythology.
But let's be honest: It's all about Jack. He's what made the first movie a hit. And, as a Hollywood dealmaker might put it, the franchise hinges on him. So why crowd the movie with an ever-expanding cast no one cares about? And why run aground a seafaring adventure saga with tedious scenes of a pirates' council as they discuss administrative matters?
Worth seeing for the jaw-dropping action, the doses of irreverent humor and of course the star power of Depp.
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