We saw this on May 22 at the 109 cinemas in HAT Kobe. The HAT apparently stands for Happy Active Town, an area east of central Kobe that was rebuilt after the Hanshin earthquake of 1995. Why am I writing all this? Probably because it's a tad more interesting than the film we saw there.
I guess this Pirates movie shows that even if you throw actors the calibre of Depp, Rush, McShane and Cruz together, you still can't guarantee goals. It was a fairly flaccid affair (though a little better than numbers 2 and 3) and Depp is required to tent-pole the whole thing but he's not THAT good. It seems the franchise doesn't have the legs.
Bombastic and dispiriting.
P.S. A few days later I watched a 'small' German film called The Edge of Heaven and it stayed with me a lot longer than this Pirates film did.
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