Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. (12a)
Rating: 2/5 film - fair passes the time
Synopsis
Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) lives on the ship Flying Dutchman under a curse which his young son Henry can only break if he captures the trident of the Greek god Poseidon.
As a grown man, Henry (Brenton Thwaites) enlists the help of an astronomer (Kaya Scodelario) to find it. Along for the ride is the elusive but forever lucky Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), who is being chased by the ghost of Spanish Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem), who wants the trident to bring himself back to life and to kill Sparrow who placed the curse of death on him.
Review by Jason Day
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer's $3bn (and counting) film franchise vomits out yet another instalment. Don't worry too much about the plot summarised above - if you've seen the other Pirates films, you'll know by now to expect more of the same.
Javier Bardem is a thickly accented, psychotic baddie trapped in a curse and condemned to forever looking like an explosion in a dressing up closet following an earlier altercation with Captain 'lucky' Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp continues to copy and paste his glorious panto hamming).
Depp's bank balance will no doubt be swelled by this one's performance at the box office and Bruckheimer must be hopping this adds cash to the coffers - at $230m to produce, it needs to work hard for that moolah.
There is some winning humour throughout this movie including a wonderful, sprightly cameo from Macca himself, as Sparrow's imprisoned uncle who tells the best of old jokes.
In short though, don't expect your timbers to be too shivered.
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Cast & credits
Directors: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg. 129mins. Walt Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer/Infinitum Nihil. (12a)
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer.
Writer: Jeff Nathanson.
Camera: Paul Cameron.
Music: Geoff Zanelli.
Sets: Nigel Phelps.
Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, Kevin McNally, Golshifteh Farahani, David Wenham, Stephen Graham, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Paul McCartney.
Image copyright: Disney
