Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Salazar's Revenge

Cast: Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly.

Director: Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg

Release Date: 2017

Running Time: 2hrs 9 minutes

Genre: Adventure

Rating: PG-13

Format: Theatrical Cinema Release

Synopsis:

Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon, whilst being followed by an undead sea captain and his crew! 

Dead Man Tells No Tales! Or if your like myself and you come from the UK, Salazar's Revenge! 20 years have passed since the events that took place in the third movie and a few months since the events that took place in the fourth film. Terrifying nemesis Captain Salazar has escaped from the Devil's Triangle and is determined to kill all pirates at sea. I'm always open minded when it comes to movies, however I was dissapointed. Johnny Depp is a remarkable actor, a truly amazing character actor, although I'm not too sure what went wrong with this film in terms of his acting, there are a few moments at the beginning of the film where he sounds like he is overplaying the drunken pirate, to the point where his character doesn't look funny, moments later it skips to him being his normal funny drunken self. I really got the impression he'd been poorly directed as an actor. Almost told to overplay his role.

This film will answer all the questions you might have had in all the other movies. We see Henry Turner as a young boy and as adult which is quite nice as you understand his backstory. Brenton Thwaites who plays grown up Henry Turner delivers a pretty good performance, I love the resemblance between him and his father William Turner (Orlando Bloom), hats off the casting directors on that one. I was fooled into believing they could be father and son. Carina Smith's (Scodelario) character is very interesting and will certainly come as a surprise to some people. Geoffrey Rush delivers a really fantastic performance, Johnny Depp and himself work beautifully on screen together as they always do. Captain Barbossa too has a few tricks up his sleeve. This movie is definitely full of surprises. Javier Bardem delivers a good performance although I don't really feel like he had that much screen time considering the film is meant to be about his character Captain Salazar. Is he good? Is he bad? Who knows!

Jeff Nathanson has done a good job with the screenplay, although there are a few moments that really dragged the film down and seemed pointless, there are also a few really funny moments, particularly Johnny Depp's introduction, it's ingenious and very funny! The dialogue is really good, I found myself laughing quite a bit more compared to the other four movies prior, something that did actually take me by surprise. There is a lot of humour which works well with the characters. It's just a shame there are a few scenes that shy away from the premise of the film.

Although the cinematography is quite good, I could tell it was not the work of incredible cinematographer Dariusz Wolski but that of Paul Cameron, who also did the photography on "Westworld" and "Total Recall", as I said before, although it's good, there's nothing particularly impressive about it. Nothing really stands out, I'm more inclined to praise the production design, there's a really cool underwater scene in the second chapter of the film that looks very good. It doesn't necessarily look realistic but it works well with the storyline. Nothing really too spectacular. Unfortunately there wasn't anything too spectacular about the soundtrack either. It wasn't engaging nor was it particularly exciting. The weakest in the series in terms of acting and the way in which it's been filmed. I was extremely hit and miss with this film, overall though I was really quite dissapointed. It went from being really good to really bad every other scene. Perfect for those who are big fans of the series!

Note: Bonus Scene after the credits

3/5 stars