The film had promise, and it was good for about the first half-hour to forty minutes, but after they get into the Neverland jungle, proper, it all goes downhill quickly with moments of brilliance occasionally mixed in.
You know that whole You are the chosen one, the one destined to liberate us thing that the Tim Burton Alice film and the Harry Potter films had going on. Yeah, that. They took it and applied it to Peter Pan. You would think Blackbeard is bad, we need to get rid of him would be enough, but nope, they had to toss in the chosen one plot that has ruined so many good stories.
Even Jackman is dragged down by the script. His first twenty minutes were awesome as he plays a hilariously over the top villain, but then even he gets sucked into the blackhole of the script.