So, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Not so much the third film as the end of the second. It's long. Really, really long. So long, in fact, that the cinema decided to insert an intermission (is this true everywhere, or just where I saw it?). I haven't seen a bloody intermission since I was knee high to a grasshopper...
It's good enough as a film in its own right (or it would be, if it was). Special effects are awesome, though occasionally a bit too busy - the fight/sea battle scenes in particular are very choppy and difficult to follow - and the script shows some flashes of brilliance...
...but it also wastes most of its cast, makes a mockery of so much in the previous two (the Kraken, for example, is rendered obsolete) and, being the end of part two rather than a story in its own right, you end up feeling like you've sat through over five hours of film that could easily have been edited down to one 2 hour movie if only they'd passed it by an editor after the initial brainstorming session.
As a 'final part of a trilogy', it's way better than The Matrix Revolutions (not hard) but one is left with the abiding impression that it's paving the way for Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (technically 3): The Fountain of Youth.
Hasn't Tomb Raider already done that?
Anyway... In the meantime, can we put an end to this silly argument over whether it's pronounced 'Ka-Rib-Ian' or 'Karra-Bee-An'. It's either, depending on where you're from. Say either. Anyone from the Caribbean will know where you're talking about.
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