As Will and Elizabeth soon discover, Beckett also controls Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) and the Flying Dutchman, and intends to use the ghost ship as a not-so-secret weapon to destroy all those who oppose his rule. (Imagine the Tatooine sequence from Return of the Jedi with Knightley in the slave bikini instead of Carrie Fisher and you have the right idea.) Before a deal can be struck, soldiers working for the East India Company attack Sao Feng's stronghold, effectively announcing the intended reign of the ruthless Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) over the seven seas. Enlisting the help of a resurrected Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) contact Chinese pirate Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat) to help them retrieve Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker for an overdue meeting with the legendary Lords of the Brethren Court. At the end of Dead Man's Chest, Depp's Jack Sparrow succumbed to an untimely demise at the hands of the Kraken - a setback a la Han Solo's carbon storage at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. Part of the reason for this is the fact that At World's End feels in a lot of ways like a pastiche of other sequels. And while Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End does indeed satisfactorily tie up all of the loose ends introduced in the other two installments, a fitting finale for what has become one of the most successful trilogies in recent history, there is little in its labyrinthine plotlines and countless character developments to earn it the timeless appeal that has secured the likes of Star Wars or Lord of the Rings their classic status in the annals of cinema.
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