2/10
How to ruin the series
11 July 2023
Warning: Spoilers
We have there nothing new, just a cluster of series elements glued lazily into a caricature desperately trying to be a stunning ending. Another undeads in the plot that kinda feels like a bad "Curse of the black Pearl" remix.

While there was clearly said that Holender curse **can't** be taken off and no one knows how it could be achieved, a kid (Turner's son) just reads somewhere, literally out of blue that it can be solved by destroying the Trident, kinda random excuse for a plot... Then, suddently we get to know that Sparrow while giving away his compass frees undead spanish guys who wants get revenge on him, it borns a question, why it didn't happened any before? (lazy excuse for a villain, also considering that Sparrow sold his most compass to get drunk... What??) And Spanish guys are literally trying to be like Holender by terrorizing the sea on their way for him. But simply they are not as much creative, no Davy Jones..

Also, characters.. side guys are no longer funny and they also do not serve any purpose unlike in first 3 movies, and even 4th one (They even have bringed to live few characters that it was obvious they died somewhere in "On Stranger Tides"). Or lovebirds duo of Carina and Henry that as a copies of Elizabeth and Turner throught whole movie had less chemistry than Turner and Elizabeth that have showed up together at the end for 30 seconds on a screen, for a hug. Capitan Jack Sparrow is no longer a Capitan Jack Sparrow, he's just a constantly drunk clumsy, annoying kid in the playground, and everyone needs to keep an eye on him. All around acting is worse than in other movies of series, aside of Barbossa as he did great job.. and i am not even blaming actors, plot does not give them ability to shine. "Dead Men Tell No Tales" tries to be breathtaking by big cgi budget, but it fails to the point that they need to add slow motion to keep the tension up. Action sequences are chaotic, you cant see any clear about what is going on even if there is happening like 3 times less of stuff than in the "At Worlds End".. And dramatic aspect, movie tries to give a viewer few additional gasps by saying that Carina is Barbossa daughter or by killing Barbossa at the end as the only character in movie you care about in any way...

(Also music is really forgetable)

I will not even comment the laziest ending ever made, when all characters just shows up from nowhere in one place at the same time... like they just called each other between scenes and have planned meeting or something... Seriously, no epilogue, they just dropped characters in one box and said "now hug"

Its just insulting...
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