A good movie

To be honest, more than a decade later, it is actually rather difficult to give this movie a fair deal. Indeed, since then, not only Johnny Depp’s career has become extremely underwhelming (his last movies ‘Mortdecai’, ‘Transcendence’, ‘The Lone Ranger’ , ‘Dark Shadows’, ‘The Rum Diary’ and ‘The Tourist’ have all been some critical and commercial flops) but he has given us a terrible overdosis of Captain Jack Sparrow after no less than 4 sequels. After all this, we could almost forget that the first installment in this huge franchise was actually a really fun blockbuster. I remember it very well, I even saw it in the movie theater when it was released. Back in those days, Depp was still considered a box-office poison, many wondered how the hell he ended up playing the lead in a blockbuster like this one and many thought that this project would turn out to be a massive flop. I knew better, I was convinced that, if you gave this actor the right material, he could do pretty much anything and, indeed, Depp was just really awesome playing this iconic character. To be honest, I think that the movie itself tends to be slightly overrated though. I mean, sure, it is indeed an entertaining flick but, like most of the blockbusters, it is nothing really ground-breaking. Anyway, to conclude, if you manage to forget all the recent garbage involving Johnny Depp, it is actually a fine blockbuster and it is definitely worth a look.

7/10