Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 218
Fresh: 97 | Rotten: 121
POTC: AWE provides the thrilling action scenes, but mixes in too many characters with too many incomprehensible plot threads.
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 46
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 32
POTC: AWE provides the thrilling action scenes, but mixes in too many characters with too many incomprehensible plot threads.
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Director Gore Verbinski and the crew set sail once again for this, the third chapter in the swashbuckling Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is hopelessly trapped in Davy Jones' locker after a harrowing encounter with the dreaded Kracken, and now Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) must align themselves with the nefarious Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) if they hold out any hope of saving their old friend from a fate worse than
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Cast
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Johnny Depp
Jack Sparrow -
Geoffrey Rush
Captain Barbossa -
Orlando Bloom
Will Turner -
Keira Knightley
Elizabeth Swann -
Jack Davenport
Norrington -
Bill Nighy
Davy Jones -
Jonathan Pryce
Governor Weatherby Swan... -
Lee Arenberg
Pintel -
MacKenzie Crook
Ragetti -
Kevin McNally
Gibbs -
David Bailie
Cotton -
Stellan Skarsgård
'Bootstrap' Bill Turner -
Tom Hollander
Cutler Beckett -
Naomie Harris
Tia Dalma -
Yun-Fat Chow
Captain Sao Feng -
Keith Richards (II)
Captain Teague -
Martin Klebra
Marty -
David Schofield
Mercer -
Reggie Lee
Headless -
Andy Beckwith
Clacker/Dutchman -
Lauren Maher
Scarlett -
Vanessa Branch
Giselle
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All Critics (218) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (103) | Rotten (127) | DVD (40)
Mind-bogglingly, there's virtually no swordplay for the first two hours; when Keith Richards shows up for his soused cameo, the visual joke hangs in the air.
Top CriticAdvice 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.
Just how much are you willing to forgive Johnny Depp and that sea-dog swagger of his?
While it fails in matching the unpredictable excitement of the original, this is more of what I'd want in Pirates sequels. Just a little less of it.
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 . . . .
Audience Reviews for Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
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- Elizabeth Swann: This is madness.
- Jack Sparrow: This is politics.
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- Jack Sparrow: Did nobody come to save me just because the miss me?
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- Captain Barbossa: The world used to be a bigger place.
- Jack Sparrow: World's still the same. There's just less in it.
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- Jack Sparrow: My ship, makes me captain!
- Captain Barbossa: They be me charts!
- Jack Sparrow: Well, then that makes you...chartman!
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- Elizabeth Swann: Barbossa! Marry us!
- Captain Barbossa: I'm a little busy at the moment!
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- Captain Barbossa: [while going down the Maelstrom] It be too late to alter course now, maties!
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Foreign Titles
- Pirates Of The Caribbean - Am Ende der Welt (DE)
- Pirates of The Caribbean 3 - At World's End (UK)
