MOVIES - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Score: 3.14159...

This film was so extraordinarily boring, immediately after watching it, I couldn't remember more than a third of the film. The opening scene, sure, because Chow Yun Fat kicks ass. The last portion, sure, because it was so over-the-top and actually kind of enjoyable. The ending because I fought with my significant other over the viability of it as an ending. But everything else? Meh.

The day after watching this, I still cannot recall more than I could in the few minutes following it. I've rarely been this bored to death by any movie, let alone a series of films that had as much promise as this Pirates franchise. The first was truly incredible, but the second began the problems, and the third let them override even the fractional positive sum of sinful pleasure the second still allowed. I really cannot remember a movie as over-baked, poorly acted (even Johnny Depp seemed to have problems putting anything new or exciting into Captain Jack Sparrow, which is scary; Keira Knightley, how I do adore thee so, but that "rousing speech" was dreadful), and badly written as this one. Like, ever. The script was absolutely atrocious... I honestly think there was probably a better fan-fiction out there somewhere. The general plot itself was decent (from what I can recall), but the dialogue and movement from character to character, scene to scene, etc. was disgustingly amateur. The first was intriguing because the double-crosses were new, inventive, unexpected and added to the characters - in this one they were simply there to confuse the audience, which was an unfortunate success. That basically sums up the film as a whole.

It receives a Pi because, like the number, it carried on forever, without ever really delivering much, except a valuable portion of a circle, which seems complete at the end of this film. I truly hope they don't make a fourth one, though Disney may waggle fifty million in front of Depp to make it happen. The plot actually feels complete, in that it has basically started over again, replacing Will Turner as the new Davy Jones, Elizabeth Swan as the Calypso, and Jack Sparrow remaining his own highly personable self. It's actually a fairly well thought-out ending, but it's a shame it wasn't more entertaining in the meantime.