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

Oh Johnny, why must you do this? Sometimes you can say no, in fact it's good to say no when you are given this absolute drivel. A dash of 'Austin Powers', a splash of 'Pink Panther' and a colossal uninspired sprinkle of 'The Tourist' (which we all know wasn't great anyway). So what has Mr Depp graced us with his presence this time? Rich stupid useless man is recruited by inspectors to obtain a painting that holds a secret. Mildly amusing, occasionally watchable but I just...don't...get it. Why? Did they really think they could pull off an 'Austin Powers' spoof with Johnny Depp pretending to be British harnessing a moustache and an all too similar Jack Sparrow impersonation? Painfully unfunny, I mean I didn't laugh once...or even smile. The acting was questionable, with some very unusual casting choices. Bettany as a "man slave", Paltrow as a busty wife, Munn's a nymphomaniac (plausible I guess) and McGregor is just himself again. A committed central performance from Depp who always will be one of the best character performers in modern Hollywood, with Mortdecai being another memorable character. Yet the script is so horrendously dull that it gives no life to these characters. It's as if the story was brushed with a moustache comb, ridiculously fine yet with no soul. I didn't care where the painting was, heck I just wanted to laugh at something! Literally anything! Annoyingly, the film is only 107 minutes long and yet somehow felt like a good (well, bad...) 130 minutes. The narrative simply comprised of set pieces where stupidity ensues and Mortdecai exclaims "beluddy hell, ma sympafetik gag refwex!". The film takes itself utterly seriously, it really does and it shouldn't have done at all. This simply should've been a spoof, nothing more. Unfunny, weirdly acted, stupidly slow and just overly strange. Will this be a cult classic in years to come? I hope not. But hey, it's not the worst film I've ever seen, and if anything I did take away the important message of: "everyone needs a Jock"...*cough*.

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.

This is a bad film.I'm 40 minutes into this film, and I know it is bad already, but I will persevere in hope. Nonetheless:The acting is bad; The accents are bad; The characters are bad; The plot is bad; The direction is bad; The screen writing is bad; The comedy is bad; The drama is bad; The cinematography is bad; The editing is bad; The wasted acting talent is bad; The formulaic progression is bad; The twists are bad; The stunts are bad; The effects are bad; The soundtrack is bad; The lack of any redeeming feature is bad.Mortdecai is not a smooth criminal, he's bad.