Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man Tell No Tales Film Review

Finished watching Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man Tell No Tales, directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg and staring Brenton Thwaites, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightly, Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Kaya Scodelario and Geoffrey Rush. The film opens up with the Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites) the son of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Turner (Keira Knightly) who has got himself a small boat to go out at sea in hope to find his father. After seeing his father for the first time Henry promises to one day life the curse that is his keeping the family apart. Years later Henry is working on a British ship that finds itself heading into a strange area in the sea where the ship comes under attack by the undead crew of Captain Armando Salazar (Javier Bardem) who gives a message to Henry in hope he can find Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) who is currently in the middle of an elaborate bank hist. Jack soon finds himself behind bars when his crew leaves him for not getting any of the money from the bank and meets with scientist Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario) who is in a cell next to Jack due to being mistaken as a witch, and was recently recaptured after meeting with Henry who plans a rescue of the two before their adventure can begin. Overall this was a good film as it brings back the main characters from the first three film and gives Will and Elizabeth's story closure by revisiting the characters last scene together in the original three films and building upon that with the introduction of their son's motivate is to save Will from the curse that keeps him at sea. There is a great amount of comedy throughout the film from the hilarious situations the cast find themselves in to the way characters interact with one another. While the amount of character development that new and previously established characters have is great as new characters Henry and Carina get some great insight to their origins and motivations, while Captain Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) gets one surprisingly great redemption arc which helps to show how far the character has come since the original film. 7.5/10.