Mortdecai
2015, Adventure/Comedy, 1h 46m
112 Reviews 25,000+ RatingsWhat to know
Aggressively strange and willfully unfunny, the misguided Mortdecai sounds a frightfully low note in Johnny Depp's post-Pirates filmography. Read critic reviews
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Charlie Mortdecai
Johanna Mortdecai
Alistair Martland
Georgina Krampf
Jock Strapp
Milton Krampf
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Critic Reviews for Mortdecai
All Critics (112) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (99)
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This one's dead on arrival.
January 29, 2015 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
The jokes are astonishingly unfunny, splitting the cast between those desperate to please, and those looking to slip off with most of their dignity intact.
January 26, 2015 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
This wilfully terrible film marks a significant juncture in Johnny Depp's peculiar career. It is, to him, as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was to the Balkan League.
January 26, 2015 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
Compared to the mustachioed gurning going on here, Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow was a study in bleak Bergmanesque understatement.
January 25, 2015 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
With art-heist caper Mortdecai, Johnny Depp tries his darnedest to start a kooky Austin Powers-like franchise with a side of bumbling Insp. Clouseau. But dash it all if it isn't a crashing bore, old bean.
January 23, 2015 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review… -
Mortdecai isn't particularly funny, but it's also not the Pistachio Disguisey 2015 train wreck the Internet has spent the last few months anticipating. It's brainless, but it's painless.
January 23, 2015 | Full Review…
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This one's dead on arrival.
January 29, 2015 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
The jokes are astonishingly unfunny, splitting the cast between those desperate to please, and those looking to slip off with most of their dignity intact.
January 26, 2015 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
This wilfully terrible film marks a significant juncture in Johnny Depp's peculiar career. It is, to him, as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was to the Balkan League.
January 26, 2015 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
Compared to the mustachioed gurning going on here, Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow was a study in bleak Bergmanesque understatement.
January 25, 2015 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
Capers flicks of a bygone era had a swingin', hip feel of controlled chaos not overplayed farce but Depp is pedal-to-the-metal, quirking-it-up in a display completely without charm and worse, without wit.
February 2, 2021 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
Despite some visual pizzazz, a few adept verbal jousts, and a jazzy soundtrack, the vast majority of the film just isn't very funny.
December 4, 2020 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Mortdecai
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Nov 30, 2015It's not going to be called conventionally appealing, or successfully funny, but Mortdecai is not exactly the colossal unwatchable bomb that critics brought out their knives for in the first month of 2015. It's a curiosity that has some merit in its failure but it's hard to lambaste this lark too much because it never takes itself too seriously. Johnny Depp plays Mortdecai, a roguish art dealer who also traffics in stolen paintings. Gwyneth Paltrow is his co-conspirator and wife. Paul Bettany is Mortdecai's long-suffering manservant always getting into dustups or occasionally shot by his master. The weird left turns the comedy keeps taking don't exactly make the movie better but they save it from being completely unmemorable. Your enjoyment factor will weigh heavily upon your tolerance for Depp in full foppish mode, an effete dandy who struggles with his conflating love of his mustache and his wife's distaste for it. The entire story is a shaggy dog caper about stolen art that involves the Russian mafia, MI 5, and Nazi gold, and nothing matters. The actors look to be having a good deal of fun, playing dress up and trying on silly accents. I can't say I laughed out loud but I did occasionally smile at the absurd commitment. I mostly sat wondering how something like this gets made, and then I saw that Depp was one of the producers and that answered that question. Mortdecai may not be worth the invective but that doesn't mean it's good. Nate's Grade: C-Nate Z Super Reviewer
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Oct 30, 2015Imagine Blake Edwards Pink Panther series updated and starring the oh-so-cool Diana Rigg as a sleuth par excellance and Terry Thomas as her bumbling wannabe a detective husband and you've pretty well got the Mordecai flavor in a nutshell. But to know what I'm talking about one might well have to have been a child of the Sixties and grown up enjoying that brand of slapstick humor. Lacking that upbringing this all might seem a little strange, but having that (and I assure you, I do have it) one might enjoy the lot as sort of time-passing kitschy fun. I certainly did.Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
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Oct 19, 2015http://cinephilecrocodile.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/mortdecai-dir-david-koepp-2015.htmlAnthony L Super Reviewer
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Jun 14, 2015what, were, you, thinking?!Shawn M Super Reviewer
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| Martland: | I am not an alcoholic, I am a drunk! And there is a difference... |
| Martland: | Will it be alright in the end? |
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