ASyD Reviews

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

Weakest of the three

[5/10 · 5 June 2007]

The script was soooooo weak I couldn't believe it. I mean..not even the screenwriter of this mess could make out any sense of this movie. The effort to just put ALL the people and references into this flikc was so obvious and forced, that it was more like a joke.

Johny Depp and Geoffrey Rush were the only things that kept the boat from sinking....on the other side we have this atrocious "romantic couple" of Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley --- this is the most ridiculous casting decision for a LONG time...I mean..who could take both polished puppets seriously as a pair of tough pirates ?!?!?!?..Chow Yun Fat ...Im so sad for him to be put in such a mindless character...this guy has a real talent, why waste it so shamefully ????....last but not least..the "comical characters" (the two goofy pirates and the monkey) we SOOOO overused and over the top that they were really tedious halfway through the movie already Anyway the chemistry between captains Sparrow and Barbossa was really good...no wonder since they were like the only good actors in the movie (save for miscasted Fat and Stellan Skarsgard as the Coral-Guy father of the main character).

Oh yeah, I forgot.... 1) The bad guy is cool...ruthless.. I liked that character 2) I was looking forward to seeing the Kraken once again..and WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT ! 3) The "Land of the Dead + Sparrows Hallucinatory Sequence(s)" was the only part of the movie I really enjoyed

15 Minutes (2001)

A little correction...

[14 April 2002]

Now, firstly, I found the movie to be a pretty tense and rough one. The idead behind the film showed itself thoroughly in the secomd half and it was less subtle and more definitive then it should be, but i still think its good to have such ideas in a Hollywood movie. Second thing, the camerawork of this movie is awesome, finaly moviemakers are regressing from the typical steadicam widescreen bombastic camera shots and arre returning to the "amateurish" and personal level of camerawork. But the thing that I REALLY want to state here is this : you guys are crazy arent you ?!?! Ive read some of the comments and all Ive seen is how Robert DeNiro and Edward Burns were the stars of the movie...I even read that the movie lost appeal once DeNiro´s character was out of the way...NOW what a bulls***...yes DeNiro made his high standart performance no doubt, Burns was also FINEEE...BUT how can you not notice that the two psychopats were the showstealers here...I dont know Oleg Taktarov as an actor but he gave soul in his performace..and Karel Roden (yeah..I know im from Czech republic myself, but Im being realistic), hes one heluva actor and it SHOWS here...his character is not only a violent psychopat, he looks at the american society through the tv screen and what he sees makes him try his luck....a smart villian indeed....