Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

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	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
	Actors: Johnny Depp (The Ninth Gate, Transcendence), Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech), Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Skyfall)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Adventure
	Conditions of visioning: 02.09.2017, in-flight entertainment 10" screen
Synopsis: Helped by the son of his old couple of friends, Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) searches for the trident of Poseidon while being pursued by an undead sea captain (Bardem) and his crew.
Review: Already the fifth movie in a franchise initiated in 2003, and Johnny Depp has been in all of them as Captain Jack Sparrow! As well as Geoffrey Rush in fact. Depp still plays the eccentric character at the center of the story, this time accompanied by a young pair, including the son of the couple played by Orlando Bloom and Keira Knighley who was also leading in the first three movies, and that can here be seen in cameos. In Dead Men tell no Tale, the pursuit of Poseidon's trident is in line with the mythology instated since the first movie The Curse of the Black Pearl. The visuals of the movie also follow the tradition, this time with yet a new way to show the undead: after see-through skeletons and half-fish men this time they move like under water, captivating to watch in fact on the actor Javier Bardem. I liked to see the kind of "Origins story" for the character of Jack Sparrow, in which Depp was granted a digital rejuvenation like Kurt Russell in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Michael Douglas in Ant Man, Robert Downey Jr. in Captain America: Civil War or Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. That's always fascinating to watch known actors play a new role with their face of 30 years ago. All in all, Dead Men tell no Tale contains enough novelty and is well built so that it manages to revert the descending quality trend of the previous episodes, especially the catastrophic On Stranger Tides. The music is less annoying and the gags more acceptable, although some are unavoidably repeated since movie #1. A sixth movie is expected for 2019-2020.
Rating: 5 /10