The longest, darkest, most surreal and sadly weakest entry in the series. The second film, for all its problems, had more fun and energy
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05/27/07
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 206
Fresh: 92
Rotten:114
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus: POTC: AWE provides the thrilling action scenes, but mixes in too many characters with too many incomprehensible plot threads.
Runtime: 2 hrs 49 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release: May 25, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $309,404,152
Synopsis: After the action of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST, anti-hero Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is trapped in the netherworld of Davy Jones's locker. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) has returned from the dead to aid Will Turner (Orlando... [More]
Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush
Director: Gore Verbinski
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Reviews for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
1 - 20 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top Critic Interminable, with more plot lines than pirates, this is a mix of theatrical bravura, magical special effects and tedium... a journey on a tempestuous ocean with mountainous highs and fathomless lows. I was confused, enthralled, dazzled and bored.
05/22/07
Top Critic
A few laughs, some fantastic CGI and a great cameo from Keith Richards aside, this is turgid and tiresome.
03/05/08
Both sequels to the original film are confusing and long. But the third does improve on the second, because at least something happens.
03/03/08
At World's End's greatest sin, just like the second film, is that it forgets to be fun.
02/28/08
It's unlikely many fans will have the patience to sit through this soulless, yet visually enticing voyage to nowhere more than once.
01/02/08
Although visually impressive, At World's End is a bitter disappointment considering how fresh and exciting the crew was just a few years ago.
12/09/07
Not for the logically minded or the seasick prone, the film, like its two predecessors, is a dizzing concoction of multiple simultaneous stories taking place either in the real world or anybody's unhinged imagination, take your pick.
11/30/07
For a long time -- although definitely not all the way to the interminable finale of this whale of a nautical exercise -- you're likely to enjoy what you'll see
11/08/07
When it hits, it is absolutely the best of the three films, but when it misses, it is endlessly tedious.
09/14/07
Yo ho ho and a bottle of regulations!...has the soul of a three-hour U.N. committee meeting. Gods' bodkins, me hearties, this movie blows like a whale from the vasty deep.
07/31/07
POTC: At World's End strives for epic-ness, but it's not an epic. It's fluff. And fluff should never, ever exceed more than 1 hour and 47 minutes, including end credits.
07/26/07
Jerry Bruckheimer hasn’t produced a movie this undignified since Pearl Harbor -- that cornucopia of corn and bombast, where he ransacked history and sullied patriotism.
07/11/07
The wild, unstoppable commercial success of the Pirates franchise has freed Verbinski to spend a lot of time on flights of fancy and mythological asides.
07/10/07
It is not a great film, but it captures an innocence rarely seen in theaters, let alone in mega-hyped summer blockbusters.
07/03/07
"At World's End" is a sweepingly ambitious movie that, alas, takes too long making its point, and far less effort in doing something meaty with the opportunities given to it.
07/01/07
Mind-bogglingly, there’s virtually no swordplay for the first two hours; when Keith Richards shows up for his soused cameo, the visual joke hangs in the air.
06/30/07