Mortdecai

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Mortdecai

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Released Jan 23, 2015

1h 46m

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Charismatic British aristocrat and part-time shady art dealer Charlie Mortdecai (Johnny Depp) suffers from a constant lack of funds to support his lush lifestyle, so when Alistair Maitland (Ewan McGregor), a college friend and officer in MI5, asks him to find a stolen Goya painting, he accepts. But Charlie's not the only one with designs on the painting; an American heiress and a revolutionary want it too, for the artwork is rumored to contain the code to a bank account filled with Nazi gold.

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Critics Consensus

Aggressively strange and willfully unfunny, the misguided Mortdecai sounds a frightfully low note in Johnny Depp's post-Pirates filmography.

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Kimberley Jones

Austin Chronicle

This one's dead on arrival.

Rated: 1/5

Jan 29, 2015

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Scott Tobias

The Dissolve

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.

Rated: 1/5

Jan 26, 2015

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

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.

Rated: 1/5

Jan 26, 2015

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

I feel as though “Mortdecai” revolves around a continuous inside joke that I was never let in on. Surely a comedy can’t be this anemic, lame, and humorless.

Rated: 1/5

Aug 24, 2022

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

This madcap caper exists only to provide an excuse for the movie's crude zaniness and gratingly repetitive gags.

Rated: 1/4

Jul 12, 2022

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

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.

Rated: 1/5

Feb 2, 2021

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nick s

Painful. I could only watch a few minutes. In terms of acting and script it was like watching an amateur theatre group perform a high school skit. Someone should have told JD it just wasn't working.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

06/26/25

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Neil F

I must be daft or defecient because I really like this movie. It's silly and good humored and fun. So much more to my taste than the wretched Austin Powers cowpats.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/18/25

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Jeffrey F

The folks who have panned this film are followers. If they can't enjoy this one then they are absent from their sense of humor. I loved the story...clever and funny all the way.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/09/25

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Whit H

Amazing movie!! Great laughs!!!! A true hidden gem!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/07/25

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Wade H

This movie might be a movie out of time. I didn't see it in the theater but 10 years later, sitting at home looking for something different, I discovered this gem. I laughed A LOT. It was silly and weird and fun in all the right ways.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/14/25

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Ash C

One of my favourite movies. A modern funny in the ways of Wodehouse and The Importance of Being Earnest. Both thumbs up.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/08/25

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Synopsis

Charismatic British aristocrat and part-time shady art dealer Charlie Mortdecai (Johnny Depp) suffers from a constant lack of funds to support his lush lifestyle, so when Alistair Maitland (Ewan McGregor), a college friend and officer in MI5, asks him to find a stolen Goya painting, he accepts. But Charlie's not the only one with designs on the painting; an American heiress and a revolutionary want it too, for the artwork is rumored to contain the code to a bank account filled with Nazi gold.

Director: David Koepp
Producer: Andrew Lazar, Johnny Depp, Patrick McCormick, Christi Dembrowski, Gigi Pritzker
Screenwriter: Eric Aronson
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Production Co: Mad Chance, Infinitum Nihil, Lionsgate Films
Rating: R (Some Language|Sexual Material)
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 23, 2015, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 28, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $7.7M
Runtime: 1h 46m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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