Film: Pirates of the Caribbean 3

[tambourine-man]

First one was great.
Didn't see the second one.
This left me a bit confused by the third one, but I think I picked things up.
But, it was dull. Depp was so good in #1, but he phoned in his performance in #3. He obviously didn't want to be there. And I can't blame him, it was totally muddled, didn't flow, failed to build tension, and had no internal consistency - characters would take seemingly random actions at any given moment, which bore no relation to what they, or other characters, had done previously. There was a good film to be made here, but this wasn't it.

Pretty much nailed it.

Every installment of this trilogy was overly-long, tedious and could quite easily have been condensed by at least 45 minutes to an hour without any impact on the story. The third installment is the most guilty of all. As IJ said, the characters seemed to behave in a random or arbitrary manner, almost as if they were having repeated lobotomies off-camera... not that it mattered - the story was so muddled and flat that I didn't feel that I was really missing anything.

Thank God I didn't waste money seeing this at the cinema. I've never been so bored by a film... and I watched The English Patient last week.