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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

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Reviews Counted:38

Fresh:13

Rotten:25

Average Rating:5.3/10

Consensus: POTC: AWE provides the thrilling action scenes, but mixes in too many characters with too many incomprehensible plot threads.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense sequences of action/adventure violence and some frightening images

Runtime: 2 hrs 49 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:May 25, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $309,404,152

Synopsis: After the action of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST, anti-hero Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is trapped in the netherworld of Davy Jones's locker. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) has returned from... After the action of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST, anti-hero Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is trapped in the netherworld of Davy Jones's locker. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) has returned from the dead to aid Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) in their quest to rescue the beloved captain. They journey to Singapore to ask for help from notorious pirate Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat), and with this new alliance, they travel to the edge of the earth to find Jack. Then they will join forces with the world's most powerful pirates to unite against Lord Brackett (Tom Hollander) and the East India Company. AT WORLD'S END is an exercise in excess, boasting a running time of nearly three hours and a labyrinthine map of double- and triple-crosses. Characters return from the dead and change allegiances with ease, thanks to the magic of Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris) and the pirate code of ethics--or lack thereof. Though the third film in the series is filled with action and special effects befitting any blockbuster, it's the performances that make the movie memorable. Depp has earned an Oscar nod for his role as Jack, but he's not the only one who shines. With Jack locked away, the film sits on the strong shoulders of Rush, as well as Stellan Skarsgard as Bootstrap Bill and the brilliant British actor Bill Nighy as Davy Jones. Despite having to act behind a mess of CGI tentacles, Nighy nearly steals the show, as in the previous films UNDERWORLD and LOVE ACTUALLY. This is literally and figuratively the darkest entry in director Gore Verbinski's trilogy, as the film trades the sunny skies of the Caribbean for the world's most treacherous seas. There's plenty of rum-soaked humor, but it's balanced by betrayal and sacrifice. [More]

Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush

Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, Bill Nighy, Chow Yun-Fat, Tom Hollander, Stellan Skarsgaard, Kevin McNally, Jack Davenport, Naomie Harris, Mackenzie Crook, Peter Badalamenti

Director: Gore Verbinski

Director: Gore Verbinski
Screenwriter: Terry Rossio, Ted Elliott
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Composer: Hans Zimmer
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures

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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.

Full Review Source: New Yorker | comment Comment
05/30/07
Anthony Lane
Anthony Lane
New Yorker
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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.

Full Review Source: CNN.com | comment Comment
05/27/07
Tom Charity
Tom Charity
CNN.com
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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.

Full Review Source: Newsweek | comment 1 Comment
05/25/07
David Ansen
David Ansen
Newsweek
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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.

Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | comment 4 Comments
05/25/07
Richard Schickel
Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine
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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.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
05/25/07
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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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.

Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
05/25/07
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Worth seeing for the jaw-dropping action, the doses of irreverent humor and of course the star power of Depp, Knightley, Rush, Orlando Bloom, Bill Nighy, Chow Yun-Fat and a host of other talented actors who utter their lines with Shakespearean gusto.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment 13 Comments
05/25/07
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Chicago Sun-Times
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A glazed, inhuman, cluttered piece of work, a storytelling mishmash that buries the considerable charms of its actors under heavy drifts of silt.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment 13 Comments
05/24/07
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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A ponderous pirate saga, 168 minutes long, with more doldrums than 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.'

Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | comment Comment
05/24/07
Joe Morgenstern
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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Funner, biggerer, brighterer, bolderer, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is not only okay, it may even be close to good.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
05/24/07
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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One longs for more scenes featuring Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and less of everything else in this bloated, overwrought and convoluted three-hour misfire.

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05/24/07
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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Relentlessly dense and unfathomable; Depp, the heart and soul of the series, doesn't even show up till several reels in.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment 8 Comments
05/24/07
Rob Salem
Rob Salem
Toronto Star
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[Erupts] into a grand and glorious adventure at the final hour. After lying dead in the water during much of its three-part odyssey, Pirates of the Caribbean has saved the best for last. The third time is the charmer.

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05/24/07
Bruce Newman
Bruce Newman
San Jose Mercury News
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In terms of pure adventure, there's less of it here than in Pirates 2 -- the action doesn't really start until about two hours in, and even then it's hard to understand the shifting allegiances or make sense of why the different sides are fighting.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment 2 Comments
05/24/07
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Ultimately the voyage is so choppy and long that into the third hour I found myself yawning, 'Yo-ho-hum and a very sore bum.'

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment 2 Comments
05/24/07
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Even longer and less coherent [than Dead Man's Chest]. Consider it a companion piece to the similarly indulgent Spider-Man 3.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment 8 Comments
05/24/07
Lisa Rose
Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger
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A thrill-a-minute extravaganza.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
05/24/07
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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The third Pirates has tender moments and smashing ones, and if you fix on Depp, you'll manage fine.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
05/24/07
Amy Biancolli
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle
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Running nearly three hours in length, it continues the pointless excesses of the second film while again entirely missing the romantic charm of the first.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
05/24/07
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News
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I like my action movies complicated, but At World's End is less a complexity than it is a high seas bazaar with everyone and everything vying for attention. You end up going home with nothing to show for your adventure.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
05/24/07
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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