User blog comment:Uskok/Dead Men Tell No Tales Review/@comment-32133297-20170608121651

I agree with most of your review points. There are too many plot’s holes and we have this unpleasant feeling of déjà-vu.

I think it is the weakest film in the saga (and yet, we waited for it six years !). With hindsight I probably prefer On Stranger Tides, which had at least the merit of starting a new direction, whereas this film just makes a dubious summary of the saga.

Carina is indeed (from my point of view) the best character in the movie, probably because she has the best development.

Jack Sparrow is subjected to the action up to the end of the movie (except the flashback, which is indeed one of the best part of the film, finally we find our beloved Jack again !). It’s very disappointing, he has no moral choice to make. He even so had one at the end of OST, when he hold the two chalices. It seems he has become a dumb puppet… Does Angelica control him, seriously ? I would had liked the idea of an « old-unlucky » Jack, too bad the plot doesn’t make it deeper.

Shansa comes from nowhere (Tia Dalma had an introduction) and is not enough visible. Too bad, she had potential…

The Royal Navy is trully useless in this movie, just an aditionnal threat for the heroes, ended by a regrettable Deux-ex Machina (Silent Mary sweeping the ship away).

So, not enough development and too much waste of time like the mariage scene which is terrible !



Like many said about this movie, it works as a stand-alone movie, only if we don’t consider the previous films (because of the lack of continuity). This is now symptomatic in the popular sagas, Star Wars : The Force Awakens and Rogue One are the perfect examples of this phenomenon. Continuity does not seem to have importance anymore. Welcome in the reboots’ period !

Another phenomenon : The Walt Disney Company put family affairs in almost everyone of his last productions : Rogue One, Gardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, Dead Men Tell No Tales… and most likely in The Last Jedi. There are two family plots in the movie (Will/Henry and Barbossa/Carina), I think it was too much, espacially if their development is quite botched.

One last word about the conclusion : does Elizabteh Swann come from Pride and Prejudice ? I believed she hated to wear corset. We’re far away from the Pirate King that we let at the end of AWE…





