Mortdecai (2015)

Powerful

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Who makes such an awfull movie? And then again, who goes to see it?What a waste of talent and time.Unless there is some revealing mistery to bad comedies I am unaware of. Kindly enlighten me.

The film was very good, funny. It seems is underrated on imdb. We had grate moment while watchin it.

Continuing my plan to watch every Johnny Depp movie in order, I come to Mortdecai.There are many ways for a movie to go wrong, and this one goes wrong in many of the most obvious ways. It has a generic story, bad writing, a lead with a dodgy accent trying too hard, the wrong director and despite a laugh or two, it's no fun.This is the third collaboration of Depp and Paul Bettany. The pair previously worked together on The Tourist and Transcendence. Bettany remembered: "Johnny asked me if I'd ever read the Mortdecai books. I hadn't, and he gave me all of them. Afterwards, Johnny mentioned he was going to make them into a film, and asked if I wanted to play Jock." Depp said that while Bettany is not known as a comedic actor, he is one of the funniest people around.I did laugh once or twice and I discovered Gwyneth Paltrow has a nice ass too. But overall, it's a tough one to say good things about. Mortdecai grossed $23 million at the domestic box office.

Mortdecai is a good movie with a well written plot and a terrific comedic cast. The chemistry between the cast members is without a doubt what makes it so enjoyable for me. Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan McGregor all have great individual chemistry with one another, I particularly liked how Depp and Bettany played off each other. They all fit in to this universe very naturally and effectively. The humour did have its weaknesses, it had far too many running gags that it kept going back to, despite not being all that funny in the first place. Particularly the constant jokes about Mortdecai's moustache were quite repetitive. The characters are also underdeveloped, we learn significantly little about them prior to their adventure beginning. I definitely would like to have learned more about Mortdecai and Johanna's marriage, as well as Jock's personal life. It aims to be a very different, unique comedy, it's style and pacing is not typical, while many people will not agree with me, I thought it achieved this. While it is flawed, Mortdecai is great fun and worth the watch if you are looking for a good comedy, just do not go out pf your way to see it. An art dealer rushes to find a valuable painting before it gets in to the wrong hands. Best Performance: Johnny Depp / Worst Performance: Olivia Munn