Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

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  TheReelBurke

  4 / 10

  Kaya Scodelario was the best part of the film. Her character felt fresh and is smart, strong female lead the series has never really had. Javier Bardem was awesome as Salazar. The character was fearsome and vicious. The look of the character was dark and menacing. One of the things I was most worried about in the trailers was the CGI for Salazar but it definitely worked. The ephemeral way the things drift around the character to emulate the circumstances of his death added a creepiness that has been missing since the first film.
  
  Now to get into the negatives this film is a mess. The first negative is the characters connections felt forced. There was a familial connection between two characters that didn't serve the story at all. Also, the pacing of this film is very inconsistent and in the second act, it drags. The cause of this the numerous side plots and characters that make the film feel messy and directionless. My biggest negative of the film though was the franchise's most popular character, Jack Sparrow. In the first film, Jack is portrayed as a strange, wacky, overtop character but still a clever and capable pirate that should be feared underneath the facade. Yet in the subsequent films, this one included, he has become a bumbling drunk idiot that succeeds though luck with no skill.
  
  Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is definitely the best film in the series since the first. Yet, with messy direction and inconsistent pacing, it is still far from being a good film.

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