Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

PG-13

Released May 25, 2007

2h 48m

Adventure

Action

Fantasy

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Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) join forces with Capt. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) to free Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from Davy Jones' locker. Meanwhile, the crew of the Flying Dutchman ghost ship wreaks havoc on the Seven Seas. The friends must navigate dangerous waters to confront Chinese pirate Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat) and, ultimately, they must choose sides in a battle wherein the pirate life hangs in the balance.

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Critics Consensus

POTC: AWE provides the thrilling action scenes, but mixes in too many characters with too many incomprehensible plot threads.

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Namrata Joshi

Outlook

What began as a thrilling and engrossing entertainer ends up as a terribly tedious franchisee -- the convoluted plot leaves you more confused than involved.

Rated: 2/4

Jan 25, 2019

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Steve Rose

Guardian

Buoyed by luck, comedy and state-of-the-art special effects, it has not only survived the journey intact, it's also washed down its decks, ready for a whole new cycle of movies to begin.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 30, 2007

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

It's a knockabout, scattershot affair.

Rated: 2/5

Jun 30, 2007

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

An epic finale, this overlong, overstuffed film manages to neatly resolve all the loose ends from the previous entry, even if it takes considerable time to do so.

Rated: 5/10

Nov 27, 2020

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Joanne Laurier

World Socialist Web Site

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is marginally more coherent than last year's sequel-a very small mercy. It is, however, just as bloated, requiring a level of familiarity with both its predecessors.

Sep 2, 2020

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Micheal Compton

Bowling Green Daily News

At World's End is nearly three hours long, so it does feel a little padded, but for the most part the film moves at a reasonable pace - even if it almost stumbles to the finish while trying to tie up all the loose ends.

Rated: B-

Nov 21, 2019

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Griffith J

Absolutely epic in scope & scale, closing out this trilogy in blockbuster fashion. A visual feast with truly amazing CGI, special effects, & set design. A lot of awesome pirate & nautical mythology that brings unique, diverse elements. Yet the writing is overstuffed with plot points, too convenient for the characters, & recycles the shifting motives/backstabbing too often. Leaning into the quirky humor far too much undercuts moments that should be massive.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/05/25

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Hayden W

Half a star less than what I'd give the first two installments, but I'd be lying if I said it still wasn't extremely close to being all 5. The film picks up where we left in Dead Man's Chest perfectly and is hilarious in all of the confusion it slaps you with. If you can deal with Jack going insane for half of the movie and are able to process the plotholes established in the last movie, you will genuinely have a blast watching this. Of course, I would argue the confusion is a bit strange to me with all of the new plot information and whatnot and can totally understand why anyone would find that difficult to process, but it is still an unbelievably underrated film that definitely deserves to be one of the top 10 most costly films made.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

09/01/25

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JACOB B.

pirates of the Caribbean 3 at world's end is a really good movie following Captain Jack sparrow who is trying to find a way to defeat the flying Dutchman who has been after Captain Jack sparrow after pirates of the Caribbean 2 dead man's chest where they're looking for the heart of the Flying Dutchman

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/30/25

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Johannes S

Again it is too long, the result of too much filler dialogue and useless comedy scenes. But "At world's end" has the best cinematography, soundtrack, and action scenes out of the original trilogy. Also the endings for each character are well-written!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/25/25

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some T.

Malstrom!!! Need I say more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/19/25

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Leo M

"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" might be convoluted and difficult to comprehend on a first watch, however its brilliant final battle and fulfilment of Will Turner's destiny results in a satisfactory conclusion to Gore Verbinski's trilogy.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/17/25

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Synopsis

Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) join forces with Capt. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) to free Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from Davy Jones' locker. Meanwhile, the crew of the Flying Dutchman ghost ship wreaks havoc on the Seven Seas. The friends must navigate dangerous waters to confront Chinese pirate Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat) and, ultimately, they must choose sides in a battle wherein the pirate life hangs in the balance.

Director: Gore Verbinski
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Screenwriter: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio
Distributor: Buena Vista
Production Co: Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Rating: PG-13 (Some Frightening Images|Action/Adventure Violence)
Genre: Adventure, Action, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 25, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $309.4M
Runtime: 2h 48m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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