Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) by Imthenoob — 27 May 2017

Starting the pros before the cons - Johnny Depp still owns it. I liked seeing the back story of Jack Sparrow and his history with Salazar. Brenton Thwaites shows a lot of promise as a future lead of the series.

The cons - Orlando Bloom, in his short bit through out the film, was just awful. The special effects were not as good as previous films and looked quite awful in some bits. The entire plot was predictable from start to finish. Bardem was a huge disappointment as Salazar, His constant breaking of his accent threw me off the whole film and he just wasn't that good of a villain (I mostly blame the writers because Bardem is a fantastic actor and a personal favorite). The entire was very anti-climactic and did not justice sitting through the nearly two and a half hour run time. Also what is up with Barbossa's sacrifice? It was so freaking needless, They could have set up a better send off for such a good character. I am not sold on Kaya Scodelario as a future lead, She just fits such a type cast role and doesn't really bring anything new to the table.

Overall, It just doesn't live up to other films in the series. I like it slightly more than At Worlds End, which I thought was the worst film of the series, but that's it.