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Advice to Johnny Depp fans: enjoy a seafood dinner, skip the beginning, and roll up after half an hour. You won't have missed a thing.
The entire franchise seems on the verge of collapse, propelled to construct ever more grandiose flights of fancy. Without those sequences, there would be nothing there -- but a movie cannot exist on rollick alone.
The plot is not only hard to follow, there seems to be nothing real at stake. Half the characters are already dead, and half the movie seems to involve swordfights with dead people who can't be killed with swords.
Not so much thought out as strung together -- colorful incident upon colorful incident, but without logic, gathering suspense or any attempt to establish emotional connections between audience and actors.
Depp descends into the shallows of self-parody, and the plot, keen to tie up every narrative loose end, manages to be simultaneously expansive and incomprehensible.
Unconscionably long at 2 hours and 48 minutes, saddled with a plot that badly needed streamlining and running a bit low on humor, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End may not sink, but it certainly sometimes founders.
If nothing else, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End's ambition and moral ambiguity still set it apart from the pack, but as a send off to the trilogy it staggers across the finish line more than winning out right.
Another piddling blockbuster with delusions of 'darkness'
[Verbinski] borrows from a half-dozen mythologies to construct a fitting punishment for the culture of narcissism, compulsive consumption, and greed that makes movies like this one necessary.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a hearty, bumpy sea marathon. For some, it will be a fun ride; for others, it will be an ordeal. I'm somewhere in between.
Ho-hum, ho-hum - it's the same old bilge again!
(...) Aunque Johnny Depp sigue siendo disfrutable en su caracterización, es inevitable no sentir que ya ha sido suficiente incluso para él también.
a little disapointing, but still fun
A few laughs, some fantastic CGI and a great cameo from Keith Richards aside, this is turgid and tiresome.
Both sequels to the original film are confusing and long. But the third does improve on the second, because at least something happens.
At World's End's greatest sin, just like the second film, is that it forgets to be fun.
It's unlikely many fans will have the patience to sit through this soulless, yet visually enticing voyage to nowhere more than once.
If only there weren't too many Jacks . . . .
Although visually impressive, At World's End is a bitter disappointment considering how fresh and exciting the crew was just a few years ago.
Bigger, busier and longer, the third and (we hope) final chapter of the swashbuckling Disney adventure franchise based on a theme park ride becomes almost abstract...
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