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Johnny Depp returns to the big screen as the iconic, swashbuckling anti-hero Jack Sparrow in the all-new Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The rip-roaring adventure finds down-on-his-luck Captain Jack feeling the winds of ill-fortune blowing strongly his way when deadly ghost sailors, led by the terrifying Captain Salazer (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil’s Triangle bent on killing every pirate at sea – notably Jack. Jack’s only hope of survival lies in the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it he must forge an uneasy alliance with Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario), a brilliant and beautiful astronomer, and Henry (Benton Thwaites), a headstrong young sailor in the Royal Navy. At the helm of the Dying Gull, his pitifull small and shabby ship, Captain Jack seeks not only to reverse his recent spate of ill fortune, but to save his very life from the most formidable and malicious foe he has never faced.
This is a blatant attempt at trying to pull a Fast & Furious with the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise. They are trying to go back to the storytelling and action that made it a success in the first place and they are bringing back characters that had previously left it to try and revive it. It kind of works. I mean this one is definitely better than the 4th one and is kind of on par with the 2nd and 3rd entries but its still nowhere near the original. It's just kind of more of the same. It's not like Fast Five was in bringing that franchise to a whole other level. It's just more of another entry that sets up yet another one.
I would kind of recommend people checking this out. It's a decent watch if you like the Pirates movies but not a must see by any means.
