Rotten
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.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
At the end of the world, the adventure begins.
2007 · 2h 49m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Directed by
Gore Verbinski
Overview
Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with the revived Captain Barbossa to free Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' locker. The group must navigate dangerous waters, confront many foes and, ultimately, choose sides in a battle wherein piracy itself hangs in the balance.
Director and cast
- Gore Verbinski Director
- Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow
- Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa
- Orlando Bloom as Will Turner
- Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann
- Stellan Skarsgård as William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner
- Jack Davenport as Norrington
- Bill Nighy as Davy Jones
- Jonathan Pryce as Governor Weatherby Swann
- Tom Hollander Cast
- Lee Arenberg Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
43%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Rotten
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.
Tom Charity, CNN.com
Rotten
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.
David Ansen, Newsweek
Rotten
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.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
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