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OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten |
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| "Incredible special effects and astonishing set pieces fill the screen in 'At World's End,' but it's Captain Jack Sparrow who steals the show again." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Betty Jo Tucker |
C- | "After the credits rolled I felt like entering the theater lobby and doing my best impression of Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun, as the fireworks store blows up in the background: 'Please disperse, there's nothing to see here!'" |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
4/5 | "Like the popcorn movies of old, (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End) is an experience as much as it is a film, a chance for audiences to get lost in elements they rarely experience in life." |
| PopMatters |
| Bill Gibron |
C- | "Perhaps on Jack's next adventure he could sail to the end of the world to locate a more judicious editor." |
| OhmyNews.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
3/5 | "At World's End, shows that Hollywood excess, when combined with the right combination of actors and an occasionally smart script, can work out quite nicely, thank you very much." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Chris Barsanti |
| "At the end of the world, Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is cast away on a ship on a desert. He's talking to himself, or rather, lots of himselves." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
5/5 | "At World's End is too long, too confusing, too cluttered, too much. It's also great cinema." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
A | "Captain Jack returns for the climactic conclusion to Disney's swashbuckling trilogy %u2013 and Keith Richards notwithstanding, the movie rocks." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
2.5/4 | ""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." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
1.5/4 | "...it hardly seems likely that anybody will have the stones to sit through this mess more than once." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
1/4 | "Bloated beyond comprehension, overplotted to the point of aggravation, and about as soulless as a ship captain specter, [the film] is a total mess." |
| DustinPutman.com |
| Dustin Putman |
B | "For the first time, I can see why many people love this series." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
3.5/4 | "The promise for a hopeful tomorrow that spectacles like the Pirates of the Caribbean are more than just a dying cinematic breed destined to be just another theme park attraction." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B- | "Once the creaky plot finally gets the characters where they need to be, the stage is set for the film's splendid last hour, which at last manages to approach Black Pearl's magic." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
| "Another piddling blockbuster with delusions of 'darkness'" |
| CinePassion |
| Fernando F. Croce |
D | "A convoluted, ponderous, joyless spectacle whose lack of charm is matched only by its incoherence." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
.5/10 | "A bloated, repetitive sea saga that is the cinematic equivalent of pigging out at a fast food franchise." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
2.5/4 | "The thrilling final hour is almost enough to make one forget how much of a labor it is to trudge through the first two-thirds -- almost, but not quite." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
2.5/4 | "while it maintains some vestiges of daring, I fear that the filmmakers may have bought too deeply into their own delusions of grandeur" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
| "You sometimes need a flow chart to figure out who is doing what to whom and why in the third - and final (?) - Pirates of the Caribbean film . . ." |
| SA Movie & DVD Magazine |
| James O'Ehley |
5/10 | "Click here to read review" |
| Kinoblog.com |
| Jaroslav Vishtaljuk |
7/10 | "Anytime something suspenseful might be occurring, there's always a joke defusing it somewhere. And every time that happens, it's welcome." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
4.5/10 | "You will not be engaged on any level other than a purely visual one." |
| Screen It! |
| Jim Judy |
3/4 | "The best in the series." |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
5/10 | "...for all its silly goings-on, senseless violence, and perpetual, empty motion, one may still find a few pleasures." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
3/5 | "click for full review" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
| "There were only two scenes that were swashbuckling excitement. The rest was an exercise in overcoming boredom." |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
3/5 | "I missed the jokes and carefree spirit of the crew of the Black Pearl. I missed the simple pleasures of the walking id that is Jack bumping into the consequences of his nature. I missed the funny." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Karina Montgomery |
4.0/4.0 | "... even with the film clocking in at just under three hours, too much still doesn't seem like enough." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
3.5/5 | "I am anxious to see it again - and this is not a common thing for me and movies that run close to three hours." |
| Film School Rejects |
| Kevin Carr |
C+ | "The third installment gets a pass for undoing most of the damage done by the second. This is a trilogy that floats on faint praise." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
2.5/4 | "Minute-per-dollar, you get your money's worth, but an hour after you leave you'd be hard put to summarize the plot in any coherent way. If that's entertainment, then step right up!" |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
2/4 | "Gone are the clever, innovative action sequences, and practically gone is the tongue-in-cheek handling of the material." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
| "Oh, thank the gods. Thank crazy Walt Disney's head in a cryogenic freezer.... [This] lowest-common-denominator junk cinema [is] the most cheesalicious, escape-a-riffic it could be." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
1.5/4 | "It is debatable whether a movie can be "blockbustered" to death, but I advance this one as Exhibit A. Almost every frame of it feels manufactured to fit a preconceived - and inaccurate - notion of what a bigger, "better" sequel should be." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B | "So many plots, so many battles, so many tonal shifts, so many characters, and ultimately so many Captain Jack Sparrows that it is clear they are hoping we won't notice that it really is something of a mess. It's a very entertaining mess, though." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
1/4 | "Given its origins as a theme park ride, it's apt that Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy has experienced a trajectory not unlike that of a rollercoaster: an initial high, followed by repeated plummets to nauseating lows." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Nick Schager |
4/5 | "Suficientemente divertido e absolutamente irrepreensível em suas ótimas seqüências de ação." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
3/5 | "After watching Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, I may have jumped the gun in complaining about too many action sequences in Dead Man's Chest." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
3.5/5 | "Just enough surprises to keep us gripped, and laughing, right through the impenetrable, overwrought plot." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
| "It is not a great film, but it captures an innocence rarely seen in theaters, let alone in mega-hyped summer blockbusters." |
| Stranger Song |
| Rob Humanick |
C- | "'Betrayal'... is the most apt word for At World's End. Betrayal of purpose, and of promise, and of the grand, glorious finale that everyone wanted so dearly to see." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
C | "It seemed as long as the Bush Administration, although admittedly not that much of a disaster." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
B- | "...a piece of high tech fluff that will draw its fans in droves." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
| "Although visually impressive, At World's End is a bitter disappointment considering how fresh and exciting the crew was just a few years ago." |
| Movie Views |
| Ryan Cracknell |
4.5/5 | "Yep, it's a bit too long and more than a little convoluted. It's still one of the best times I've had at the movies this year." |
| Cinematical |
| Scott Weinberg |
2/4 | "A lazy rehash spun together to satisfy booty-hungry studio heads ... it's as explosive as a firearm loaded with wet gunpowder" |
| Charlotte Weekly |
| Sean O'Connell |
3.5/5 | "a little disapointing, but still fun" |
| sbs.is |
| Stefan Birgir Stefansson |
| "Ho-hum, ho-hum - it's the same old bilge again!" |
| Cinefantastique |
| Steve Biodrowski |
C+ | "If Dead Man’s Chest was inspiration gone amok, At World’s End is more — much, much, much more — of the same, only without the inspiration." |
| Decent Films Guide |
| Steven D. Greydanus |
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OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten |
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