It was confusing because the majority of the time characters motivations were unclear, with repeat viewings I'm sure I'll be able to work it out, I just wasn't expecting to have to work so hard to understand the characters.
There were many element of the film I did enjoy, I'm a fan of the franchise. But I'm disappointed that a film with so much talent behind it was allowed to become so bloated and messy, there were probably a lot of storylines and characters that could have been cut without harming this film and saved for a future POTC film (because there will be).
And Scrumdiddly, I'm sorry if I didn't explain myself properly, I was unimpressed with the handling of the characters and plot, I think they could have done so much better than they did, the standard was set very high by the first two films imho and they did not meet their own standard in this one, but compared to a lot of other film, it was still quite good.
I was impressed by other aspects of the film though, the SFX, the jokes, the cinematograhpy were things that impressed me, and are worth buying the film for, as well as the fact that I'm a big fan of the franchise and am willing to watch it two or three more times so I can process the whole thing. I am happy to do that, but thats not what I was expecting to have to do. And I'm a fussy film student anyway!