Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End

*** (3 Stars)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)
Genre: Action Adventure/Fantasy
168 minutes - PG13 rating
Director: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Kiera Knightly, Geoffry Rush, Bill Nighy, Chow Yun-Fat, and more.


Brief Plot: Will (Bloom), Elizabeth (Knightly), and the rest seek the charts to travel to Davvy Jones' Locker in order to rescue Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) and his ship the Black Pearl. Meanwhile, the East India Trading company terrorizes the sea while Lord Cutler Becket enjoys the use of Davvy Jones and the Flying Dutchmen. The Pirates face extinction and must make a final stand.

Best Audience: Basically if you've seen the first two you have to see this one. It really isn't a movie you want to see unless you have seen the other and enjoyed at least the first one. As an action-adventure and fantasy type movie it is fun.

My Review: It's really hard to find good things to say about this movie in all honesty. Parts of the movie are downright painful and the humor that was easy and steady in the first movie is strained and trying too hard in At Worlds End. Some of the characters (namely Norrington and Tia Dalma) are inconsistent throughout the movies and the plot is a twisted mess with more plot lines than the Kraken has tentacles. Too many things are built up in the second movie (Dead Man's Chest) that either are not explained or resolved, or else amount to almost nothing in At Worlds End. The acting is mediocre (Depp's performance is way below what he did in Curse of the Black Pearl) and it's just a movie with a very slapped-together feel. I did enjoy a twist near the end and the resolution of the movie with the ships battling in a giant maelstrom makes the movie worth sitting through. Overall, I still have fun watching the film and it has good special effects, but it isn't something that I would rave about. The really sad thing is that At Worlds End had the potential to be an amazing movie, especially with how much the second film built up for it, but it simply fell short. It deserves a 3 only barely since the end of the movie is so exciting and the special effects are terrific.