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.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 24, 2022

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

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 12, 2022

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.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Despite some visual pizzazz, a few adept verbal jousts, and a jazzy soundtrack, the vast majority of the film just isn't very funny.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 4, 2020

It's hard not to think that this is one project that looked a whole lot funnier on paper.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 17, 2020

Mortdecai is a scattershot comedy caper film ... destined to fall into that rotation of films you always see on cable networks and wonder if anyone is actually watching them.

| Jul 3, 2020

It was misguided at every junction.

| May 27, 2020

It was a low-rent Wes Anderson movie.

| Mar 26, 2020

As I said earlier, it isn't good enough or bad enough to even get a real reaction.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 11, 2020

Mortdecai is an okay film that will struggle to find a U.S. audience. A character is given a silly mustache to set the tone right away, and the tone in entirety is just that- silly.

| Original Score: 6.3/10 | Nov 12, 2019

Depp's exaggerated mannerisms and affected speech are sure to infuriate his detractors and please those who enjoy his long line of goofy character creations.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 6, 2019

It doesn't take an expert in fine art to see that this is a cold, soulless knockoff of a true masterpiece.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 17, 2019

It tries way too hard, getting very few laughs out of a usually pretty reliable cast.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 24, 2019

Most caper comedies understand the need to pepper their expository scenes with sight gags. Nothing brings what should be a fun heist flick to a dead halt like two poorly lit actors sitting opposite each other reading out the plot scenario.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 11, 2018

I feel "Mortdecai" went into production on the sole premise of "Johnny Depp wears a silly moustache," and people thought the poster would look funny, and at some point someone realized they needed a script.

| Aug 22, 2018

Mortdecai is just simply horrible

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 2, 2017

The rarest kind of awful comedy, where even the characters themselves tangibly hate the movie they're in.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Jul 10, 2016

The movie is a worthy warning to Hollywood at large: if you're going to make a comedy, hire some damn comedians.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 15, 2016

There's nothing worse than a film that's laughing at itself while the auditorium is silent, and while Mortdecai inspires a few chuckles, it never fully delivers.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 25, 2016

He's a character of a bygone age of literature and film plopped down into this time and place but with no realization that anything is different. All in all, you could certainly do a lot worse for a January release.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2016