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Jack is back but with a whimper 

The original pirates were fast action paced movies with nothing but fun and bravado at heart. After jettisoning Keira Knightley and the wimpy Orlando Bloom, On stranger tides, the fourth installment in the pirates series starts with everyone looking for the fountain of youth. Most of all, a notorious pirate Blackbeard(the dependable Ian McShane once again) , who practices black magic and recruits/captures Jack(Depp) to guide him to the treasure. Following them is the king's navy privateer Hector Barbossa(Geoffrey Rush) and a Spanish expedition. There is also a love interest for Jack, a girl named Angelica(Penelope Cruz) , a scorned lover we are informed. Her intentions keep changing from scene to scene and all she does is look good. 

But as the movie progresses, you realize  that you might as well stick to her unpredictability because scene after scene just seems to be a pile up of desultory set-pieces, with the film going nowhere in the first half. Every scene or action sequence lasts a generation too long with no apparent end or goal in sight. As the movie lurches, we too feel disjointed from it. The only entertaining part was the mermaids whose beautiful faces belie the sinister motives they carry within.

Depp , you would say has outlasted this role and stripped it of any new trinket whatsoever. Rush and Cruz are adequate and just look happy to collect their paycheck. Ian McShane the psychopath for his acting along with the beautiful mermaid for her ...well beauty are the only redeeming features of this boring film. 

And oh yes the 3D, which is not required is just like the movie......nothing special. 

Rating : 2/5
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