adonis98-743-186503 Juggling angry Russians, the British Mi5, and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charlie Mortdecai races to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain a code that leads to lost gold. Mortdecai is not perfect and it's definitely not one of Johnny Depp's best films but it packs a few good laughs and the cast does a good overall job. Like i said it's not perfect it's a bit cheesy at times and not all jokes hit as they might expected but i have seen worse than that. (6.5/10)

jwdesign-77554 I don't understand the bad reviews, I thought it was hilarious. Depp's best character yet. I love silly, witty dialogue and this is chock full of it. It doesn't hurt that it is also visually gorgeous. Love the Rolls!

OneEightNine Media I tried. I really did. About an hour into this, without a single laugh coming out of my mouth. Without me caring a bit about the story or anything in the movie, I had to just turn it off. I literally couldn't take another second of this movie. It is just an unfunny comedy. The characters could have been interesting but you just find them annoying if not anything else. What a mess. What a crime! Look at the freaking cast for this film! Freaking A-listers! I am so mad at how much this film su@ks that I don't even want to know who directed this. Trust me, this film isn't even good enough to fall asleep to on some random and boring night because you will just be waxed off with the film. Whatever, I'm over it.

jtindahouse The question I kept asking myself as I watched 'Mortdecai' was who exactly was this film made for? It can't have been made for adults, the humour is far too childish and lame to be appreciated by anyone over the age of 10. However, it also couldn't have been made for anyone that young, because the story is far too convoluted and full of itself to ever be appreciated by anyone of that age. I believe this is the main problem when it comes to the complete box office failure that was this film. It appeals to no one. I'm a huge Johnny Depp fan and I could quite happily have never seen this film. I could tell from the very first trailer I ever saw that it was going to be terrible. Turns out I was right.The days of lame humour being passable are thankfully over. Unfortunately, no one told that to these film makers. Today's audiences are too desensitised and impatient for comedies where the main gag is a funny accent or an unappreciated mustache. Even kids movies are evolved past that point. That's not to say every comedy has to be full of vulgar language and be riddled with gratuitous violence. It simply has to have some edge, some intelligence and some originality to it. It's also becoming hard for films that don't have their actors improvising. This felt like a film where every line was quoted directly from the script. It's hard to get away with that in this modern world of comedy.So the comedy side of things didn't work, how about the story and the action? Sadly, they don't either. The story is ridiculously bland and seems to think it's smarter than it is. The one thing I was looking forward to going into this film was the element of mystery which I had seen tagged in the genre section of its IMDb page. I thought if nothing else I can have fun trying to guess that side of things. Even that wasn't to be though. The story was a mess. Then there were the unbelievably poor action scenes. Twice a car chase started up and I thought to myself here we go, a little action finally. However, the car chase turned out to be just two cars driving. There was zero creativity in them. No near misses, no crashes, just us listening to the characters talk while they happen to be involved in a chase. What exactly did they spend their rather large budget on for this film?The only thing really holding the whole thing together, if you could even say that he did that, was Depp. Even though his character was boring and had no good dialogue to work with, he still somehow managed to create charisma. He seems to be really struggling of late to find films that he can shine in, and it's sad because I maintain that he's one of the finest actors in Hollywood. Undoubtedly though, 'Mortdecai' was a poor career choice on his part and one that I suspect he would like to erase from his C.V. Somehow, I suspect he doesn't have to worry about being approached to do a sequel.