Mark Kermode: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End reviewed by Mark Kermode. In: BBC. 10. Februar 2015, abgerufen am 1. März 2024 (englisch): „They finished filming without a completed script and they just ended up with a montage of bits and a whole bunch of special effects […] And then we have the magisterial talent of Or-Loon-Do Bland […] He's so wet, he's so drippy, so completely ineffectual. Nobody cares about him. […] Keira Knightley's acting has always been wooden but this time its a petrified forest of woodenness. You could really built a very nice piece of Keira furniture out of her performance. And when she's on the screen with Or-Loon-Do Bland its like two chairs mating. You feel like you have get out your varnish and varnish it.“
Cammila Collar: Kritik zu Pirates of the Caribbean – Am Ende der Welt (Memento vom 5. April 2019 im Internet Archive) bei AllMovie (englisch) „On the one hand, Pirates 3 goes running with the tangled web of plot developments from the second movie that so many viewers found convoluted and boring. On the other hand, this film […] brings it to fruition [with] a payoff [–] full of the delightful, adrenaline-fueled action sequences that an adventure movie requires [–] a fantastic sense of pirate lore [–] it's a lot less kid friendly than its predecessors [because] this movie's violent themes are much more gruesome.“
