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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Wait for #3; all sizzle, no steak
Waste of 10 bucks, waste of 2 hours, waste of capable actors. It wasn't that it was horrible, it just wasn't very good. There are some well choreographed action sequences interspersed between complete lapses in storyline. While the first movie had a good story and decent writing, this movie lacks both. There is no character development, no linear flow, apparently no direction, and my God no chemistry between Depp and Knightly. Here they have a genre with endless possibilities, and yet it just lies there as flat as the film it was printed on. I'm not saying I could do any better, but that's not my job, it's theirs. Entertain us. Sequels aren't just so you can pad your wallets. We should all demand better. Enough time wasted. Final verdict: wait for TV.
Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
Are you kidding me?
I just finished watching this movie on TV and couldn't understand why anyone would bother releasing this film to theater other than to cash in on some reputable names of actors that obviously made poor decisions, furthermore why anyone would bother spending more than pocket lint to be subjected to such pathetic dribble.
For starters, if this character found herself in such a sit com like situation as she did, why didn't she just tell the truth instead of dragging things out until the inevitable, tedious and way too predictable end.
Brendan Fraser is a capable actor and what can I say about Shirley MacLaine. Ricki Lake although, with her best performance since "Hairspray", should now reserve herself for the kind of melodrama that only daytime television affords her.
After losing 2 hours of my life already to this travesty, I feel it is my duty to spare my fellow viewers from the same horror that I have just endured.