seen on 28 May 2017
Johnny Depp stars as Captain Jack Sparrow in the fifth instalment of the Pirates franchise, with support from Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem, Kaya Scodelario, Brandon Thwaites and David Wenham, and cameo appearances by Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and Paul McCartney.
It's good fun with competent special effects, a ridiculous but entertaining story line and the usual over the top performance from Depp. Interesting that for the first half hour of the film, Jack Sparrow slurs his already extraordinary accent as he is clearly inebriated - but it is evidently OK with flowing locks and a pirate costume, where it would have been an appalling role model in modern dress.
There is some need to know what happened in the earlier films, but I haven't seen the fourth, and it is years since I saw the others so my memory of the details is poor, and I did not feel too disadvantaged.
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