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Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Men Tell No Tales
By Rouén Robinson
Jul 7, 2017 - 7:28:39 PM

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A swashbuckling adventure that comes off a bit waterlogged...

A headstrong young sailor seeks the help of a down-on-his-luck pirate to find an object that is the key to freeing his father from a powerful curse. On this adventure he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant astronomer possessing knowledge of a map only she can read as they try to stay ahead of a deadly ship manned by ghost sailors led by an enemy of the pirate bent on ending piracy on the high seas.

Henry Turner is the son of Will Turner & Elizabeth Swann-Turner and is looking for the trident of Poseidon to free his father from the curse that comes with being the Captain of the Flying Dutchman. Carina Smyth is an horologist looking for the trident in hopes of using it to uncover the mystery of her parentage by following the clues in a diary she believes belonged to her father. Captain Jack Sparrow is the current captain of the Dying Gull and must use it to find the trident to save himself from the vengeance of an enemy from his past searching for him. Captain Salazar was a pirate hunter in the Spanish Navy who was trapped in the Devil’s Triangle with his crew who is seeking the trident to put an end to piracy and Jack.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
is the fifth entry to the franchise that is better than the fourth but not quite up the original trilogy. For me the most engaging sequence was the guillotine scene which perfectly captured the fun swashbuckling vibe that was missing in the last installment. Brenton Thwaites and Kaya Scodelario don’t quite capture the chemistry that Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley had but they do more with their characters than Sam Claflin and Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey were allowed to do with theirs in the previous movie. Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg do an okay job directing this motion picture and I look forward to seeing what next they have in store that is not hampered by the studio's guidelines for a franchise that has made billions. This is the safest entry in the film series and does not attempt to reinvent the genre it helped to reinvigorate many years ago.

I rate this movie a rating of 2 out of 5.

P.S.  There is an after credit scene which masquerades as a dream sequence but may lead to another film being brought on that horizon.



See other reviews by Rouén HERE.


Rouén Robinson has been an avid moviegoer since childhood and has been critiquing motion pictures for almost a decade. He has been a film critic for The Cinemas on Tempo and was a judge for FLIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, an off shoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Rouén lives in Grand Bahama and can be reached at redr1976@icloud.com and on Twitter @thereelrouen




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