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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

2007 Directed by Gore Verbinski

At the end of the world, the adventure begins.

Captain Barbossa, long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. But nothing is quite as it seems.

Johnny Depp Orlando Bloom Keira Knightley Stellan Skarsgård Chow Yun-Fat Bill Nighy Geoffrey Rush Jack Davenport Kevin McNally Tom Hollander Naomie Harris Jonathan Pryce Keith Richards Lee Arenberg Mackenzie Crook Greg Ellis David Bailie Martin Klebba David Schofield Lauren Maher Vanessa Branch Angus Barnett Giles New Reggie Lee Dominic Scott Kay Takayo Fischer David Meunier Ho-Kwan Tse Andy Beckwith Show All…

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Review by Erik Nordgren ★★★★

Naomie Harris actually transformed into a million fucking crabs for this role it's in the trivia, what an icon
Review by CinemaClown ★★★ 6

The third & final instalment of Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean saga is an overly bloated & unnecessarily convoluted mess that adds even more complexity to the plot by introducing too many characters instead of bringing its pirate mythology to a satisfactory conclusion. Lacking the very sense of fun that made its predecessors click so well, it is the weakest film of the original trilogy.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End continues the events that transpired in Dead Man's Chest and follows Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann & the crew of the Black Pearl as they team up with the resurrected Captain Barbossa on a quest to rescue Captain Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' locker and then join the other pirate lords…
Review by matt lynch ★★★ 1

absolutely looks and behaves like the most expensive movie ever made. in a lot of ways not dissimilar to TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (though almost certainly less culturally and psychically poisonous). completely gorgeous, insanely, pridefully bloated, and mostly a baffling ordeal. by the time the massive, nearly 40-minute long climax is climaxing you won't really know who's fighting who or for what, but at this point in the franchise i feel like you gotta listen to the sage wisdom of AIRPLANE!: "They bought their tickets; they knew what they were getting into."
Review by A.J. ★★★★½ 1

Hoist the colors.

At World's End is a fucking mammoth of a movie. Gore Verbinski achieves a sort of The Return of the King-lite, and it, for better and worse, works. It's just shy of three hours and it's paced incredibly well. It's the sort of ballistic, enormous, mindless blockbuster filmmaking that I love. Does Verbinski's film hold water or have genuine stakes? No. But shit, it sure feels like it does.
Probably my favorite of the Pirates trilogy.
Review by Scott Anderson ★½

2 hours and 48 minutes. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is 2 hours and 48 minutes long. I have seen longer movies in a literal sense, but this might be the longest movie ever made.

Let me explain how I got roped into these viewings of the Pirate films. Last November, my kid decided she wanted the Disney Infinity video game for Christmas. Santa obliged, and along with the game came a few character toys, one of which was Captain Jack Sparrow. The little one became very curious of this pirate gent and she became addicted to playing the game as him, so I informed her that he was from a series of films. "Oh really?!?! We should…
Review by isa ★★★★

the Will Turner Intellect & Strategy Brand™ is literally just him sprinting in order to try and keep up while every other character mentally and physically backhands him across the face and i personally think it makes for the greatest comedy in known cinema

Recent reviews

Review by Mark Gonzales

This movie is bad at all, it's over long, nonsensical, convoluted, confusing mess.
It has moments where it is entertaining the malestrom battle is a spectacle but it doesn't outweigh the bad.
Review by Thomas ★

This movie is still too long and incoherent.
Review by Erik Avilez ★★★½

Quoting the lovely Sarah Lynn: "that's too much, man".
Review by MEGAMOUW ★★★

People hate the sequels to the first movie. That’s fine, this isn’t great. This is a bit long and self serious, but honestly I have to rest for being as violent and dirty as the other two. It doesn’t try to appeal to younger audiences and after taking in to consideration that Disney made it, well, this is a miracle. Also the effects are really good, that’s not anything of value to the actual quality of the movie, but it’s still impressive 11 years later. So yeah.... it’s fine. Kept me entertained for nearly three hours.
Review by ashley ★★★

james norrington and elizabeth swann featured as the two characters with any real character development (eh, i guess will sorta counts)
Review by erikhatspass ★★★ 2

Die Ausstattung ist wieder einsame Spitze, aber dieses Mal hat es Gore Verbinski mächtig übertrieben. Denn für mich war dieser ganze Film mit all seinen Irrungen, Wirrungen und Nebenschauplätzen ein reiner Kampf. Nahezu jede Figur hat ihre eigenen Ziele, die sie verfolgt und alle Wege müssen wir offenbar mitgehen.
So hatte ich nach knapp eineinhalb Stunden schon genug vom dritten Abenteuer des Jack Sparrow, musste aber feststellen, dass ich erst bei etwa der Hälfte der Spieldauer war. Die Charaktere – allen voran Keira Knightleys Rolle – sind zudem völlig nervig, so dass ich mich richtig durcharbeiten musste. Keine Frage, der Film sieht wunderschön aus, aber er will einfach auch zu viel.
Review by mason ★★★★ 2

Best trilogy of the millenium. At least until Mamma Mia 3 comes out.

Grade: 8/10
Review by leila ★★★½

beckett’s last scene is amazing i love that shit
Review by Rem ★★★½

an overly long but fitting, conclusive ending to a good trilogy. absolutely no other movies exist in this franchise. none whatsoever that ruin it and make it unbearable to sit through any longer.