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Piratey. Lots and lots of pirates! In fact, everyone’s a pirate. Even you and me. Yo, ho, ho! The biggest saving grace of this movie was that it was way better than PoTC2. A huge sigh of relief from me as I didn’t fancy paying six bucks to spend three hours sleeping in uncomfortable seats at the local theatre. Don’t go see this movie if you’re looking for a decent screenplay and well thought out drama. This is an absolute riot and you just have to go with it. Silliness abounds but there’s much fun to be had, many beautiful things to see and action out the wazoo.

I particularly enjoyed the stone crabs, the marriage ceremony, and KK getting to squash her buckle.

There are plot holes galore, inappropriate dark themes and not much makes any kind of sense but I thought I got a pretty good deal from the whole shebang. I laughed out loud many times and I did not fall asleep once! High praise, indeed, these days. Though, as Mark Kermode might say Gore Verbinski is clearly part of the death of narrative cinema.

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We saw Valentina Lisitsa perform at the university recent and wow! Her playing was stunning. Just watching her hands more across the keyboard was an inspiration. While she played the fast sections with great precision I found the grace and control for slower sections even more impressive. Just watching her hands was artistry in motion. Stunning.

The programme she played was quite wide ranging in tone though did have a more modern feel to it. If she ever comes by your way she is definitely a must see.

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Okey dokey. A shoot ‘em up that delivers on action but was not the most coherent screenplay. Gratuitous half naked female lead shots. Poor Kate Mara. Violence of the gratuitous kind. Basically gratuitous all the way around. Not the greatest movie of it’s type but was not a complete waste of space. Did rather like Michael Peña as the FBI agent though.

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Boring. Bad script, bad acting, just bad all the way around. Pathetic bad guys. Action sequences that looked like video games and cut so quickly you couldn’t see a damn thing. I almost fell asleep multiple times. That’s a very bad sign. Basically it was bad. Don’t waste your hard earned cash. It’s not even worth the money for a dvd rental.

I should have realised something was up when the Sam Raimi interview with Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode on Fivelive was so awful. Talk about boring.

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