Mortdecai

« Les acteurs sont malheureusement tous ici aussi mauvais les uns que les autres. (...) Oubliez tout approfondissement des personnages, il n’y en aura pas. »

« If you're looking for a film that's biggest running gags are cowardice and aversion to facial hair that would make a hipster stand up and applaud, then Mortdecai is the film for you. »

« Well, it's pretty to look at; very well shot by Florian Hoffmeister with terrific production design by James Merifield. (...) But these minor attributes certainly can't save a movie, or a star, enamored with its own supposed wicked genius. »

« For all its minor offenses against taste and decency, the sole unforgivable sin that Mortdecai commits is one that would leave its rakish anti-hero aghast. Because the film that bears his name is ultimately a frightful, crashing bore. »

« Rather, he's an amalgam of easy-target toff characteristics — a preening, lily-livered aristocrat of indeterminate provenance, forced to live by his unreliable wits as his fortune supposedly runs dry. »

« I envy Depp's capacity for self-amusement, but it's a pity he's so rich and enbubbled that no one dares say to say to him, ''Er, Johnny ... this is, er, really very bad.'' »

« Mortdecai is by no means a disaster — the occasional joke lands, and there's at least some fun to be found in the frenetic farce of all the conspiracies and the running-around (...). »

« Go if you're a raging Anglophile with an afternoon to burn or you just love Depp, even at his hammiest. Otherwise, don't point this thing at you. »

« When the definitive biography of Johnny Depp is finally written, I know that I will immediately turn to the chapter focusing on Mortdecai so that I can finally figure out what in God's name he and everyone else involved was thinking when they made it. »

« Dénué de rythme, Mortdecai est en outre bourré de quiproquos, de clichés et de sous-entendus sexuels d'une rare lourdeur. »

« Un ratage cinématographique qui ne passera pas à l'histoire. »

« Bref, dès le moment où on accepte la notion de caricature plutôt que de portrait, on embarque dans une aventure à l'humour anglais acerbe et pince-sans-rire, qui inspire de nombreux moments d'esclaffement authentiques. »