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LOOKING quickly at the prospectus for “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” in which the son of the series’ Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley characters joins forces with a mysterious orphan to master the sea’s arcane mysteries and do what his forebearers could not, you might well label it “Pirates: The Next Generation.” But unlike the “Star Trek” franchise-extender, this one is nowhere near bold enough to think it can dispense with its aging protagonist: Johnny Depp’s cartoon- ishly louche pirate Jack Sparrow, the globally recognized caricature who by now feels more like a theme-park mascot than a Hollywood swash- buckler. Depp remains wholeheartedly the focus of this fifth Pirates film, and saying the character’s loopy novelty has faded is like complain- ing that there are maggots in the below-decks gruel: You knew what you were getting when you came aboard. Despite its limp zingers and a phoned-in star performance, this episode — directed with little distinc- tion by Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, of 2012’s “Kon-Tiki” — hits enough familiar notes to continue its predecessors’ commercial success. Javier Bardem’s Salazar is this film’s central antagonist, who at the start descends on a Royal Navy vessel that has sailed too close to the Devil’s Triangle. “Who are you?” a terrified sailor asks. “Deeeaaath,” Salazar croaks. Salazar kills all the crew but one: Henry (Brenton Thwaites), the now-grown son of Bloom’s Will Turner and Knightley’s Elizabeth Swann. And when it emerges that Henry has been seeking Dad’s old mate Jack Sparrow, Salazar gives him a message to carry to the man whose magic compass is somehow the key to his eternal imprisonment: I’ll be whole again someday, and when I am, you’re dead. Not long after, we watch Captain Sparrow barter that magic compass for a bottle of booze on the island of Saint Martin. He has just suffered through a fairly ridiculous bank robbery-gone-wrong, a bombastic farce that appears to have cost him the few mates who’d remained loyal to him and introduced him to some new ones: Henry, who wants to help Sparrow find Poseidon’s trident — which has the power to “break any curse at sea,” including the one that condemned Will Turner to eternal duty on the Flying Dutchman; and Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario), a self-taught astronomer in pos- session of a magic book that might show the way. Scodelario, of the “Maze Runner” films and Andrea Arnold’s “Wuther- ing Heights,” is just about the only member of the cast who seems to believe she’s expected to be more than a thin generic functionary or flamboyant scene-stealer. Which is unfortunate, given how Jeff Nathanson’s screenplay sometimes treats her. In her first scene, Carina is in prison awaiting execution (some- thing about witchcraft), and while she’s fully capable of picking the lock of her cell, she waits to do so until a priest comes to hear her last words. Why? Presumably because there’s no other way to show she’s bad. Things proceed noisily from here, as the pursuit of the Trident attracts the attention of old Captain Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), who was practically choking on riches before Salazar escaped the Devil’s Triangle and started killing all the pirates he found. Whether he’s on Sparrow’s side or not is always in question. But Rush will wind up the focus of one of the picture’s more satisfying set-pieces. The movie is now being screened in Shenzhen. (SD-Agencies) 14 ❘ Movies CONTACT US AT: 8351-9409, [email protected] Fri/Sat/Sun June 2~4, 2017 (June 2) Theaters Theaters China Film Cinema Tel: 8661-7199 Add: Block A, Building 2, Qushui Bay, OCT Bay, Baishi Road 8, Nanshan District (南山区白石路东8号欢乐 海岸园区内的曲水湾2栋A区) UA KK Mall Tel: 2290-6660 Add: 4/F, KK Mall, 5016 Shennan Road East, Luohu District (罗湖区深南东路5016号京基百纳空间购物 中心四楼) Golden Harvest Shenzhen Tel: 8266-8182, ext: 0 Add: 3/F, The MixC, 1881 Bao’an Road South (罗湖区宝安南路1881号万象城三楼) South Movie City Tel: 8261-1138 Add: 3/F, Kingglory Plaza, Renmin Road South, Luohu District (罗湖区人民南路金光华广场三楼) New South Movie City Tel: 2594-4588 Add: 3/F, City Plaza, 1095 Shennan Road Central (深南中路1095号新城市广场三楼) Shenzhen Jinyi Intl. Cinema Tel: 8280-1168 Add: G/F, Central Walk, Fuhua Road, Futian District (福田区福华路怡景中心城内G楼) Broadway Circuit Tel: 8881-1222 Add: 2/F, Coco Park, Fuhua Road 3, Futian District (福田区福华三路Coco Park二楼) China Film Antaeus Intl. Cineplex Tel: 8253-1188 Add: 3/F, Jiaxinmao, intersection of Nonglin Road and Qiaoxiang Road, Futian District (福田区农林路 和侨香路交汇处嘉信茂三楼) MCL Cinema City Tel: 2685-8870 Add: 5/F, Garden City Center, Nanhai Boulevard, Nan- shan District (南山区南海大道花园城中心五楼) Holiday Cinema Tel: 8269-8989 Add: L3, Yitian Holiday Plaza, opposite Window of the World, Nanshan District (南山区世界之窗对面 益田假日广场L3层) Coastal City Cinema Tel: 8612-9988 Add: 3/F, Coastal City, 33 Wenxin Road 5, Nanshan District (南山区文心五路33号海岸城三楼) Schedule Schedule Currently playing Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (English) —————————————— Wonder Woman (English) —————————————— Ratchet and Clank (English) —————————————— Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (English) —————————————— Edge of Innocence (Mandarin) —————————————— La Historia Du Un Amor (Mandarin) —————————————— 《加勒比海盗5：死无对证》 Starring: Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, Kevin McNally, Geoffrey Rush Director: Joachim Roenning Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Javier Bardem (C) as Salazar in a poster for “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.” File photos Johnny Depp as pirate Jack Sparrow.
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LOOKING quickly at the prospectus for “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” in which the son of the series’ Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley characters joins forces with a mysterious orphan to master the sea’s arcane mysteries and do what his forebearers could not, you might well label it “Pirates: The Next Generation.” But unlike the “Star Trek” franchise-extender, this one is nowhere near bold enough to think it can dispense with its aging protagonist: Johnny Depp’s cartoon-ishly louche pirate Jack Sparrow, the globally recognized caricature who by now feels more like a theme-park mascot than a Hollywood swash-buckler.
Depp remains wholeheartedly the focus of this fi fth Pirates fi lm, and saying the character’s loopy novelty has faded is like complain-ing that there are maggots in the below-decks gruel: You knew what you were getting when you came aboard. Despite its limp zingers and a phoned-in star performance, this episode — directed with little distinc-tion by Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, of 2012’s “Kon-Tiki” — hits enough familiar notes to continue its predecessors’ commercial success.
Javier Bardem’s Salazar is this fi lm’s central antagonist, who at the start descends on a Royal Navy vessel that has sailed too close to the Devil’s Triangle. “Who are you?” a terrifi ed
sailor asks. “Deeeaaath,” Salazar croaks. Salazar kills all the crew but one: Henry (Brenton Thwaites), the now-grown son of Bloom’s Will Turner and Knightley’s Elizabeth Swann. And when it emerges that Henry has been seeking Dad’s old mate Jack Sparrow, Salazar gives him a message to carry to the man whose magic compass is somehow the key to his eternal imprisonment: I’ll be whole again someday, and when I am, you’re dead.
Not long after, we watch Captain Sparrow barter that magic compass for a bottle of booze on the island of Saint Martin. He has just suffered through a fairly ridiculous bank robbery-gone-wrong, a bombastic farce that appears to have cost him the few mates who’d remained loyal to him and introduced him to some new ones: Henry, who wants to help Sparrow fi nd Poseidon’s trident — which has the power to “break any curse at sea,” including the one that condemned Will Turner to eternal duty on the Flying Dutchman; and Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario), a self-taught astronomer in pos-session of a magic book that might show the way.
Scodelario, of the “Maze Runner” fi lms and Andrea Arnold’s “Wuther-ing Heights,” is just about the only member of the cast who seems to believe she’s expected to be more than a thin generic functionary or
fl amboyant scene-stealer. Which is unfortunate, given how Jeff Nathanson’s screenplay sometimes treats her. In her fi rst scene, Carina is in prison awaiting execution (some-thing about witchcraft), and while she’s fully capable of picking the lock of her cell, she waits to do so until a priest comes to hear her last words. Why? Presumably because there’s no other way to show she’s bad.
Things proceed noisily from here, as the pursuit of the Trident attracts the attention of old Captain Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), who was practically choking on riches before Salazar escaped the Devil’s Triangle and started killing all the pirates he found. Whether he’s on Sparrow’s side or not is always in question. But Rush will wind up the focus of one of the picture’s more satisfying set-pieces.
The movie is now being screened in Shenzhen. (SD-Agencies)
14 x MoviesCONTACT US AT: 8351-9409, [email protected]
Fri/Sat/Sun June 2~4, 2017
(June 2)
TheatersTheatersChina Film CinemaTel: 8661-7199Add: Block A, Building 2, Qushui Bay, OCT Bay, Baishi Road 8, Nanshan District (南山区白石路东8号欢乐海岸园区内的曲水湾2栋A区)
UA KK MallTel: 2290-6660Add: 4/F, KK Mall, 5016 Shennan Road East, Luohu District (罗湖区深南东路5016号京基百纳空间购物中心四楼)
Golden Harvest ShenzhenTel: 8266-8182, ext: 0Add: 3/F, The MixC, 1881 Bao’an Road South (罗湖区宝安南路1881号万象城三楼)
South Movie CityTel: 8261-1138Add: 3/F, Kingglory Plaza, Renmin Road South, Luohu District (罗湖区人民南路金光华广场三楼)
New South Movie CityTel: 2594-4588Add: 3/F, City Plaza, 1095 Shennan Road Central (深南中路1095号新城市广场三楼)
Shenzhen Jinyi Intl. CinemaTel: 8280-1168Add: G/F, Central Walk, Fuhua Road, Futian District (福田区福华路怡景中心城内G楼)
Broadway CircuitTel: 8881-1222Add: 2/F, Coco Park, Fuhua Road 3, Futian District (福田区福华三路Coco Park二楼)
China Film Antaeus Intl. CineplexTel: 8253-1188Add: 3/F, Jiaxinmao, intersection of Nonglin Road and Qiaoxiang Road, Futian District (福田区农林路和侨香路交汇处嘉信茂三楼)
MCL Cinema CityTel: 2685-8870Add: 5/F, Garden City Center, Nanhai Boulevard, Nan-shan District (南山区南海大道花园城中心五楼)
Holiday CinemaTel: 8269-8989Add: L3, Yitian Holiday Plaza, opposite Window of the World, Nanshan District (南山区世界之窗对面益田假日广场L3层)
Coastal City CinemaTel: 8612-9988Add: 3/F, Coastal City, 33 Wenxin Road 5, Nanshan District (南山区文心五路33号海岸城三楼)
ScheduleScheduleCurrently playing
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (English)
——————————————Wonder Woman (English)
——————————————Ratchet and Clank (English)
——————————————Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
(English)——————————————Edge of Innocence (Mandarin)
——————————————La Historia Du Un Amor
(Mandarin)——————————————
《加勒比海盗5：死无对证》
Starring: Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, Kevin McNally, Geoffrey Rush Director: Joachim Roenning
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Javier Bardem (C) as Salazar in a poster for “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.” File photos
Johnny Depp as pirate Jack Sparrow.
