As far as a femme fatale, Nicola's character is extremely stunning and acts the part with some minor difficulties. I enjoyed the aspect of Billy Bob Thornton's character Samson breaking the fourth wall under the guise of writing a book. Some of the acting is subpar with some rough spots of cinematography. Overall, I really enjoyed the casting, character development, and the plot of the movie.

The book is excellent the film is a dreadful mess and is just bad Guy Ritchie. Avoid this trash and read the book.

A movie where the entire plot is one big plot whole.....

One of the dumbest movies ever. Don't waste your time.

Jessica Rabbit already did this role to perfection. Best scene was Keith dancing to Dire Straits. That was inspired. Was Thornton killing time, doing a favor, passing by the studio one day? Why is an actor of his caliber in this? I can almost understand Depp's involvement. Without Thornton there's no hook, no anchor. Even then it's adrift.

A complete disaster. I don't know what I was hoping for but watching this was a waste of my valuable time. I don't know who cast this film but there should have been more auditions. You can't always make a decent film out a book. They tried here and utterly missed the mark here. If I could give it zero stars I would.

Main actress is a corny actor, they should have swapped her with Jamie Alexander, who's already proven to be a better actress. From what I hear about her personality IRL she should have been able to play this character no problem. Billy bob did an excellent job playing the part of the sick writer and that's the only saving grace.

Ironically, Johnny Depp's mere, uncredited participation is the only highlight out of this truly horrible picture under questioned credibility but clearly better written on paper that bolstered its source material while failed its unsuitable adaptation, filled with uninteresting, prolonged repetitive pacing through unconvincing efforts and failed overacted attempts only striking nonsensically at mentally unstable levels. The only reason I approached this picture is just to see exactly how bad it is and why, as well where does it truly ranked among not just in its release year's lowest but also among the top 100 worst films of all time. (D+)

I wanted to like this film. It's got a couple of world-class actors, and they play their roles well. But I stopped watching halfway through. I just lost interest. For one thing, the dystopian landscape and burned-out buildings were just depressing.

This movie was really low quality. A waste of time.

This is probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It's really bad. Don't waste your time.

I'm a tomato 🍅🍅🍅.Yeahhhh if I only had a brain...

I think there are some elements of this film I liked - the principle of the storyline and Thornton's acting from the writer's POV really appealed to me. Depp always delivers a fun character and does so effectively in the film - Heard's only real addition is remarkable beauty and a lot of conniving cunningness that is reflective of her character. It's not the worst film but certainly not the best, but has a promising premise of suspense and intrigue.

I watched the film directly after listening to the audio book. What made the book enjoyable was the characters. The story was very much secondary. The movie was interesting to watch because it was interesting to see 2 hours of story extracted from 21 hours of audio book... it was an interesting summary of the plot. But very very badly done. The worst thing about the movie was the best thing about the book... the characters. The film needs to have been something like Seven. And for me the main character in the book was Keith... the actor who plays Keith is terribly inappropriate for Keith both in terms of his physical attributes and oh my god his terrible terrible acting (mugging I think it is called). In the book Keith is evil, but you end up liking the character, not the person, and his catch phrases and his strengths and weaknesses, his either/neither and his such-likes... he should have been Sasha Baron Cohen's Grimsby. Guy and Samson were spot on. In the book Guy has so many funny episodes but they were ALL missing from the movie. Samson. Nicola is almost more of a plot device than a person in the book, a force of nature. In the movie she is cryingly bad, like someones teenage daughter wandered on the set and tried to act (and Keith is someones teenage son doing the same). Nicola in the book has poise and confidence and is crazy, Amber Heard is just a stupid. Their was nothing of Keith's family life, or his car, or his shed. Or Guys home-life, and Marmaduke and his interactions with the nannies and also with Keith and Nicola, and Lilly Boo etc etc. The movie should have been focussed on the intensely edgy scenes that took place between the characters. It focussed on the wrong characters and the wrong story, But if you have read or listened to the book it was interesting

unwatchable. I can't fathom how this made it out into the wild.

You really need to make a huge effort to finish this movie.

umm. wow, did I miss something. are these people telling a story? If so it's a story not worth listening to.

Hot garbage fire. Acting was cringe. I would gladly pay to get my wasted time back.

Had potential, but turned into a mess. Acting was *cringe*.

Its talented cast, compelling cinematography and promising premise are completely wasted in this failed attempt at a neo-noir thriller that doesn't bring anything new to the genre nor does anything of interest with its intriguing elements. Its script is pretentious, messy and incoherent, and its characters are one-dimensional, stereotypical and unlikable. Amber Heard, Jim Sturgess and Johnny Depp give some of the worst performances of their respective careers.