Alright, I meant to write a review for this movie after I had seen it, but I just now found the note that reminded me to make a review for this movie. This will not be a proper review, just the various things I noted about the movie.
The main problem with PotC IV was too many plot points. The movie felt very rushed from the beginning when the fishermen find the man with the book on Ponce de León who managed to both hold onto that book as well as it not getting it wet while not drowning (to which the Spanish embark on a quest without further explanation).
It basically tried to be a mirror image of the first three movies all in one. First, you have objects cast in rare metals that need to be taken to an structure in the middle of a cavern (mirror to the first movie). Second, you have the fusion of two romances, in the trilogy: Will & Elizabeth and Davy Jones & Calypso, in the fourth movie: Jack Sparrow & Angelica and Philip Swift & Syrena (mirror to the second movie leading into the third movie). Third, you have three entities vying for supremacy, in the trilogy: the English Fleet, the Pirates, and Davy Jones, in the fourth movie: the Spanish conquistadors, the English privateer, and Blackbeard.
Well that's all I have to say, it's well past due that I post this review.
