The first Pirates film is the best one out of the four (so
far) that have been made. That is because it is the one with the best plot and
possibly the shortest. The film is based on a theme park ride so there is the potential
(which we got in the next three films) for the lack of plot to be shown to
everyone. The plot of this one is that Jack is trying to get his ship back and
Barbosa (who stole the ship from Jack) is trying to free him and his men from
the curse. This is a good plot and its done with well over the course of the
143 minutes.
Johnny Depp is very good as Captain Jack Sparrow, its easy
to see why people like this character as he is a bumbling character that you couldn’t
believe as a pirate who has his own ship (which he doesn’t). Geoffrey Rush is
also very good as Barbosa. He is great as a baddie and seems to thrive as a
pirate and that is why when he and Johnny Depp are in the same scenes that they
become highly enjoyable scenes. Sadly the film is let down by Orlando Bloom and
Keira Knightly. Both are very limp as actors and its quite appropriate that
they are attracted to each other because they deserve each other. Bloom was
very good in Lord of the Rings but having to come across as likeable blacksmith
who some how falls for Keira Knightly’s character is totally stupid and I could
have done without both of them.
The only bad thing that I can say about this film is that it
was so good that it lead to three terrible sequels (the third being the worst).
This film is a nice film that has a good plot with some good performances and
its always enjoyable to watch everytime I put it in my DVD player.
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