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Synopsis:
Cursed to walk forever as creatures neither living nor dead, unable
to feel, to taste, to have any form of pleasure and doomed to reveal
their true selves as hideous monsters, whenever they are touched
by the moonlight, the mutinous pirates of the black pearl, led by
the evil captain Barbosa (Geoffrey Rush) seek to rid themselves
of this curse forever.
To do this they must reclaim every piece of the stolen Aztec gold
which had cursed them in the first piece, having claimed all but
one piece the pirates track it down to a port and kidnap port general’s
daughter Elizabeth Swan (Kiera Knightley).
However help is not far off as Elizabeth’s heroic secret admirer
Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) joins forces with eccentric pirate Jack
Sparrow (Johhny Depp) to rescue her…
Review: Forget The Matrix Reloaded, forget The Hulk, you
can even forget T3; this is how every summer action blockbuster
should be made.
Great casting, beautiful locations, involving plot, oh and some
of the best swordfights and action sequences in recent years.
No this isn’t another embarrassing pirate film (AKA Cutthroat Island)
but possibly one of the best swashbuckling (and yes I realise that
word will be overused to describe this film) action adventure films
of the past decade, nay possibly even ever.
Ok so I may be getting a tad too excited there but still this is
one outstanding film.
Being the first film ever to be based on a ride at Disneyland (or
a ride anywhere for that matter) and with all the eccentricities
that implies the film simply shouldn’t work, but should be some
tacky awful mess.
Should be. But it isn’t.
Quite simply this film succeeds where all recent blockbusters haven’t
quite hit the mark because; it isn’t trying to be pretentious, deep
and meaningful (The Matrix), it isn’t trying to prove a point about
humanity and our attitude towards those that are different (The
Hulk), it isn’t trying to draw people in with promises of big budget
explosions and multi million pound high tech CG fights (T3) and
it isn’t about franchising and sequels (T3, The Matrix and the Hulk
combined).
And it is this final point which makes it so much better, because
the film feels complete, you feel as if you have taken a journey
and reached it’s end, indeed despite obvious franchising and sequel
opportunities the film doesn’t set itself up for a sequel which
is where so many of the other summer blockbusters have gone horribly,
horribly wrong.
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