Like many on land and sea, Salazar has a grudge against Sparrow, and when his haunted ship is accidentally freed from its home among the rocks in the Devil’s Triangle, he sets sail to find him. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), who has become the world’s most successful pirate, and new villain Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem), a ghost pirate leading a ghost crew who can never leave the water and appear as rotting-corpse apparitions, some with body parts missing (it’s actually rather ghastly, but the effects are so stunning, you almost don’t notice). He has easily become the least interesting figure in the Pirates movies, especially when put alongside far more interesting anti-heroes as returning pirate Capt. He’d have to be to endure inhabiting a character as underwritten and essentially pushed to the sidelines of his own film series.
#PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN TOW GAME LEAVE ALLIANCE MOVIE#
And let me assure you, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is one murky movie on so many levels.Īt this point, I just assume Johnny Depp is really drunk on screen while playing the stumbling, mumbling Capt. ) The bottom line is-and always will be-that 3-D doesn’t work when the image begins dark. (That might actually be a better subtitle for this chapter of the Pirates franchise: The Murky Depths. The problem I find-and the reason for this PSA-is that many films offered in 3-D contain a great number of sequences set during the evening or in otherwise dark environments, and when you’re forced to wear lenses that dim your vision slightly, the resulting image looks all the more murky. I’m not inherently against 3-D it doesn’t give me a headache or lessen my enjoyment of a film because I have to wear those flimsy, smudged glasses. It’s actually been a while since I’ve attended a preview screening of a 3-D movie that wasn’t animated, and I’ve actually grown to prefer seeing a film for the first time in 2-D.
Photograph courtesy of Walt Disney Studiosīefore we even dig into the story or performances of the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film, pointlessly subtitled Dead Men Tell No Tales, allow me to make a public service announcement that I thought I’d never have to make again, but apparently I do.
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