10 Movies WAY Darker Than Originally Advertised
8. Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End
Released in 2003, Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Carribean surprised audiences and critics alike with its success.
The movie's light tone balanced swashbuckling action with a genuinely witty script, and managed to sneak in some serious scares and compelling romance to boot. The belated sequel Dead Man's Chest was less well loved, with a convoluted plot and overly ambitious set pieces.
But the third film, which was heralded as a return to the light tone of the first, ended up hiding the biggest tonal departure yet.
Later releases in the series may have attempted to redress the imbalance, but the third instalment of the Pirates franchise saw the filmmakers take a far darker and more tragic route than fans anticipated, one which none of the films promotional materials alluded to.
By the movie's close, the heroine was left alone and heartbroken as the hero was doomed to a sentence as captain of a cursed vessel, a bleak ending which would have been moving if it weren’t, you know, part of the same franchise as Jack Sparrow's antics.