you might need the help of a bottle of rum to make it through this overwrought and overly long and sanitized pirate saga . this film should have be and could have be excite with some major tweaking . bad casting be a large part of it problem . for starter and i would have make blackbeard the central male character of the film and and he would have have a romance with the heroine . i would have have blackbeard play by a young and exciting actor such a naveen andrew . instead and blackbeard and whose beard by the way and be rather odd look and be so long and narrow and be play by angus macfadyen . mr. macfadyen be a middle age man who be fight a middle age spread and who look a if he belong in an recliner chair in front of a tv set far more than he belong on a pirate ship . the male lead and robert maynard and be play by mark umber . he be all right and but not handsome or excite enough . and while i greatly admire the heroine and charlotte spunk ( jessica chastain ) and she be no shrink violet the woman do not hesitate to use a gun or a knife she be so homely and she could have stop a clock at midnight on a moonless night . there be scenery chew aplenty and along with a lot of action on the high sea and and no doubt quite a bit of historical inaccuracy . certainly more than a bit of unrealistic happening . they go in search of captain kidd treasure find it and then i will be darn if they do not go in search of it again . that part be completely murky . do captain kidd have more than one hidden treasure . be the first one captain kidd and the second one some other treasure . i do not know and i do not even care enough to try to figure it out . 4 star out of 10 .