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A movie based on a ride should never be this good. The jokes shouldn’t work this well. Depp shouldn’t have been able to put forth such a solid performance. But it all worked. Every last bit of this movie just…worked. The key, I think, is that it never takes itself too seriously. This movi… |
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Tom Hanks has his best role in years as Captain Rich Phillips, yet ends up second banana to the U.S. Navy in general and the SEALs in particular. The combined effect elevates Captain Phillips to true greatness. That it is also the rare history lesson delivered while still current elevates it …
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Not so much a film as it a series of interesting characters, settings, and ideas weddged together in seemingly random order with just enough of a convoulted plot so that it all barely makes sense. However it still entertains. Not as good as the first but better than third only because the thrid h… |
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Not terrible, but a disappointing end to the trilogy that started with so much potential. Like many trilogies, the POTC story grew too convoluted as the movies moved along, and by this third film there’s about an hour worth or unnecessary material that does nothing but distract the audience from … |
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Retread Pirates of the Caribbean fare. See it for the fun action and retread humor, not for sophistication or originality. |
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Johnny Depp plays Kemp, an alcoholic journalist in Puerto Rico in the early 1960’s, stumbling around a paradise island in a drunken stupor, and learning about plans to displace locals in the name of greed from a playboy buisnessman named Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart). Based on the book by Hunter S. T…
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Not horrible, but fairly cheesy Russian movie about marines who face pirates on the open sea. Improbable circumstances and not-great acting is pretty much what you’d expect from this Russky B-side. I’m actually not sure why I stuck through this. |
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Slog-a-thon. Johnny Depp, great costars, fabulous visuals: all for naught. The fourth installment of Disney’s thrill ride franchise reinforces much, mostly that more is not more when it’s a mess. A convoluted plot about the search for the Fountain of Youth scaffolds countless action sequence…
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