Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END (2007) - May 23, 2007
That was long. Very, very long. It started out pretty well, with the main characters trying to recruit a band of Singaporean pirates to assist them in rescuing Jack Sparrow. But then not a whole lot happens, and the movie spends the next hour or two setting up the many plot threads leading up to the action-packed finale. There are double crosses, and triple crosses, and probably quadruple crosses -- I was basically able to follow it but it certainly seemed unnecessarily convoluted. Much of what I liked so much about the first one (the fact that it was just a relatively simple, fun swashbuckling adventure) is completely absent from this film, replaced in favour of a much more epic feel. And then there's the whole ending sequence, which is LONG and seems to be compensating for the relative lack of action in the mid-section. Couldn't some of this action have been spread out a bit? The film is well made and looks very good, but I just had a hard time maintaining my level of interest for the entire three hours. **