Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge
The fifth instalment of the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise sees various parties once again chasing after Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), whilst Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites) seeks the Trident of Poseidon to break his father's curse. In the US the film is called "Dead Men Tell No Tales" which is glaring obvious as Henry says it before the title screen appears. Why is it Salazar's Revenge over here? Who knows.
I've not been keeping up with the comings and goings with POTC since the first two films which I considered to be rather decent swashbuckling fun in my teens. It's difficult to make a case for their being a fifth outing of any series and Salazar's Revenge becomes something of a slog after a while. Even Javier Bardem as the titular Salazar doesn't look like he's having that much fun in a role that is clearly ridiculous. When the zombie sharks show up, you get the sense of a movie attempting to throw everything at the wall to see what will stick.
The best thing about this film is probably Kaya Scodelario's performance as Carina Smyth. Denounced as a witch for her interest in astrology, she's the only intelligent person in a sea of idiots and her character development and story arc feel vaguely plausible. There's still some pleasure to be had in seeing Depp gallivant about as Captain Jack and there are two serviceable set pieces with some solid slapstick in between an awful lot of bawdy innuendo of varying quality.
But that's not really enough to carry a two hour film and no number of snippets of the iconic theme tune can hide that fact. It's not awful but I basically forgot about it as soon as I left the screening.
I've not been keeping up with the comings and goings with POTC since the first two films which I considered to be rather decent swashbuckling fun in my teens. It's difficult to make a case for their being a fifth outing of any series and Salazar's Revenge becomes something of a slog after a while. Even Javier Bardem as the titular Salazar doesn't look like he's having that much fun in a role that is clearly ridiculous. When the zombie sharks show up, you get the sense of a movie attempting to throw everything at the wall to see what will stick.
The best thing about this film is probably Kaya Scodelario's performance as Carina Smyth. Denounced as a witch for her interest in astrology, she's the only intelligent person in a sea of idiots and her character development and story arc feel vaguely plausible. There's still some pleasure to be had in seeing Depp gallivant about as Captain Jack and there are two serviceable set pieces with some solid slapstick in between an awful lot of bawdy innuendo of varying quality.
But that's not really enough to carry a two hour film and no number of snippets of the iconic theme tune can hide that fact. It's not awful but I basically forgot about it as soon as I left the screening.
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