Pirates Of the Caribbean: Movie Review

The third part of the swash-buckling pirates saga, wasn't so swash-buckling after all. With not as many action sequences as the first two, it was more of a drama, with romances, deals made, deals broken and no scope for witty Jack Sparrow to display his usual knack for getting out of stuff. He had to do with some repartees which gave few laughs here and there. In the scenes where he talks to himself, he has proved with his acting skills, that he one actor in Hollywood to be reckoned. Can't wait for his next movie with Big B. Following the first installment which became an unexpected hit, the story began to take a complex turn with new characters and storyline in the second. The third movie was expected to answer those complexities and give a concrete ending. But it continued to make the story more abstract, bringing in the useless Calypso, pirates from all over the world etc. and took it to a point of no return, when finally it dawned on the script-writers that "Enough is Enough". After that it was the high-speed twisting turning story that made the first two a blockbuster and that was missing till that point in the third movie. That was enough to compensate for the first 2 hours of dull drama.

The end of the movie not only took us back in a cycle to the beginning of the first movie with Jack sparrow abandoned by his crew in Black Pearl, and left with nothing but a boat and a bottle of rum, but also has left scope for a sequel with all the main characters still alive and ready for the next adventure. There are however some points which weren't clear to me in this movie. Why was there so much hype for Calypso who proved to be as useless as a log on-board? Why did the commander not order his men to attack the ships in the end? What happened to the other 100 ships standing against the 9 pirate ships? What happened to Elizabeth's crew and ship with her being the king of pirates?