Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End was outstanding. [View All]

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Now that I've seen it, I just don't understand at all the reviews that claimed they couldn't tell what it was about or that the story was confusing. Maybe they arrived late and missed the premise or maybe they just can't understand anything more complex than a Seinfeld episode or maybe they just weren't paying attention. Seriously, the premise was made clear in the first fifteen minutes and then everyone proceeded accordingly. I was never confused for a second as to what was going on in terms of the plot of the movie. Naturally, the usual pirate double crosses, backstabbing, prevarication and trickery, not to mention theoccasional triumph of a character's nobler instincts, provided a few twists and turns, but the overarching plot was clear and even fairly simple start to finish.

The action sequences were absolutely spectacular, outdoing even the great battle scenes of the first two installments. The comic relief characters and situations were very effective and laugh-out-loud funny at times. Keith Richards' cameo as Jack Sparrow's dad was terrific. He was excellent and had a great character and the best line of the movie--maybe the best line of all three movies in the trilogy. The romance angles were done superbly and in grand swashbuckler tradition. The effects were stellar. The ships were stars in their own right. The plot was engaging. There also were more filmmaker-ish touches than the first two movies, including the sequence of Jack in Davy Jones' Locker, which was both surreal and funny. I think it even had some not-so-subtle digs at the bush cabal and the current attacks on civil liberties and the pursuit by some of more wealth and more power at all costs. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I'd give it an 8.5 on a scale of 10. Far better than installment two I thought.