Even Captain Jack Sparrow could not save the ship from drowning, as it is clearly understandable from every critic's review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
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In 2003, the franchise made their debut with its first movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Then subsequently three other movies from the franchise got released in 2006, 2007, and 2011 respectively, which received rave reviews. But as the first four films paved the way for success at the world box office, will the fifth instalment take in the moolah at the box office despite receiving negative reviews from critics?
The fifth instalment, Dead Men Tell No Tales, revolves around how dead Captain Salazar takes revenge on iconic Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp). 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 terrifying Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil's Triangle bent on killing every pirate at sea—notably Jack.
The movie received mixed response from the critics, mostly negative though. Let's take a look what they are saying.
The Hollywood Reporter
Depp remains wholeheartedly the focus of this fifth Pirates film, and saying the character's loopy novelty has faded is like complaining that there are maggots in the below-decks gruel: You knew what you were getting when you came aboard. Despite its limp zingers and a phoned-in star performance, this episode — directed with little distinction by Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, of 2012's Kon-Tiki — hits enough familiar notes to continue its predecessors' commercial success, keeping a small city's worth of VFX artists employed until Depp decides he can't be bothered anymore.
Collider
Rather than understanding why the first three movies worked so well, Dead Men feels like someone trying to do a Pirates film from memory, but without understanding how the pieces fit together. And to be fair, some of those pieces will never fit right again. In 2003, Johnny Depp was on the cusp of the A-list, but he was still kind of an outsider with something to prove. He would lead movies, but they included oddities like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Dead Man. In Curse of the Black Pearl, Sparrow, for all of his silliness, feels like a real character. In Dead Men Tell No Tales, he's a parody of that earlier character, clearly cashing a paycheck and left adrift with no interesting arc even though the movie goes out of its way to give him an origin story.
Forbes
No, the world didn't need a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Dead Men Tell No Tales doesn't quite measure up to the gloriously gonzo original trilogy. But it still makes its mark as a grounded adventure, or as grounded as a supernatural pirate movie can be. If this is the start of a new series, it is a step in the right direction. If it indeed acts as a series finale as promised, then the franchise can exit stage left with honor. Best of all, this fifth offering allows viewers to forget that On Stranger Tides ever happened.
Variety
But rarely is one ever swept up in the sanitized pirate fantasy that used to be the franchise's raison d'etre – indeed, were it not for the occasional wide shots of the digitally-sweetened ocean, it would be easy to forget the film even takes place on the water.
Shot in Australia, "Dead Men Tell No Tales" rarely appears to be taking place anywhere other than a soundstage, featuring pirates posed against unnaturally hued skies, and a foggy color palette that ranges from gray to slate, gunmetal, granite, and ash.
The Independent
Unfortunately, like Salazar's ship, the fifth Pirates feels a little empty, haunted by the spectre of what came before. There are fun, inconsequential moments but nothing particularly memorable, the film running out of steam midway through as the aforementioned flashbacks take over.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which is the fifth instalment of the franchise, features Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Kaya Scodelario, David Wenham, Brenton Thwaites, Kevin McNally, Geoffrey Rush, Golshifteh Farahani, and Paul McCartney. The film opens in theatre on May 26.
