Pirates of the caribbean: at world's end - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Reviews

I went to the cinema that day to watch At World's End, expecting to watch the same Pirates style that we are used to from the previous two movies. Obviously, I have underestimated this movie. It was nothing like I have expected. So here's the basic story of the movie (no major spoilers here): The movie starts from where we left off last time. Captain Barbossa is resurrected to help Will, Elizabeth and the others to bring Jack Sparrow back from Davy Jones Locker. Meanwhile, Lord Cutler Beckett continues to execute pirates and says that they now face extinction. Cutler, having obtained the heart of Davy Jones, forces the Flying Dutchman to work for him, killing the remaining pirates at sea. Now the pirates from all the seven seas must stand together against Cutler and Jones before they start to fall one by one. The movie ends in a climactic battle at a giant maelstrom where the fate of each character is decided there. Generally, the movie this time is much darker than the previous ones. There's less comedy, less visuals but more drama and a much more complicated storyline. Story-wise, the movie doesn't merely tell a fictional legend about ghosts and treasures like the previous Pirates movies. It's more about different people standing together and facing their common enemy no matter what the consequences are. Some may find this change from the previous films annoying, but in my opinion, I think it gives the movie a more realistic feeling and the dark atmosphere of the story doesn't make us feel as safe as in previous movies, where we knew that all characters were going to live in the end. Surprisingly, some characters become darker, while some others tend to become more human and there's no way you can predict how the story goes. The direction is great. Although the movie stood at almost three hours, there was not a boring moment (unlike Jackson's King Kong, which could have been much better with more editing). I am happy that the director didn't just edit the hell out of the movie to make it shorter to satisfy more audience. I mean come on, this is the end of the trilogy, it HAS to be long. I have become a fan of Gore Verbinsky now! The best thing in this movie is cinematography. You can notice how the camera works in a spectacular way throughout the movie. The camera even plays a major character in certain scenes. Personally, I liked how the whole waterfall scene was shot, and there was this view, just before the waterfall scene, where the ship was sailing through dark water in a sky full of stars...this was just one of the best images of the movie for me. A rather "disturbing" scene was when Jack Sparrow gets off his ship to find himself in the middle of a desert. It was just how the camera captured the emptiness of the place, and the rather subtle music in the background, that made this scene the most disturbing for me. The acting this time is more than fascinating. By now, we are all accustomed to the fact that Johnny Depp makes a funny entrance at the beginning of each movie of the franchise. Well, this time his entrance is unlike anything you've seen before. I don't want to spoil it for you, you just have to go and see it for yourself! Johnny Depp, as usual, delivers a performance that really shows how special an actor he is. But this time, I was surprised by how great the acting of some other characters was: Geoffrey Rush (Hektor Barbossa) makes every scene that he appears in very special. Also Tom Hollander (Cutler Beckett) gets a bigger screen time this movie and delivers a great performance as one of the main antagonists. Most noticably, Hans Zimmer takes a giant leap in this movie to compose a score that doesn't fail the epic proportions of the movie. Although I thought that the score for Dead Man's Chest didn't meet my expectations after what I've heard in The Curse of the Black Pearl, the music in this movie is the best so far, with a lot of new themes that really bring the movie to life. So in conclusion, this movie is, in my opinion, the best in the franchise so far, although I don't think that it will be met with the same admiration by everyone. Don't go expecting to watch some computer-generated effects and have a few laughs (for that, you can go watch Spider-man 3). You should go expecting a much darker movie, a complicated storyline (go revise the previous two movies before watching this one) and rather some disturbing scenes. But you SHOULD go. You don't want to miss a movie like this. I am really satisfied with this movie and the way it has changed from the previous ones. I am expecting it to recieve an oscar for best cinematography, best screen play, best actor (Johnny Depp) and maybe even best supporting actor going to Geoffrey Rush or Tom Hollander. I think it may also win some technical awards such as best costume design, best make up, best art direction and set decoration, best sound editing but not best visual effects though (I think that will go to Spider-man 3), and unless someone makes a much stronger score this year, Hans Zimmer may win his first Oscar since The Lion King! A 10/10 for this amazing masterpiece.