After James Bond, Johnny English and Austin Powers have made espionage a worldwide hit, people will never get tired of movies like this! Johnny Depp adds "dashing secret agent" to the long list of kooky characters he has portrayed in Mortdecai, a movie based on a 1970s three-novel anthology by Kyril Bonfiglioli.
In this movie, Johnny Depp is Charle Mortdecai, an eccentric and hilarious hero who reminds me of Steve Martin's Inspector Clouseau. With his trusted sidekick and manservant Jock, Mortdecai engages in various entanglements with the police and more.
Depp plays a dapper James Bond type whose good looks and special charm are his only weapons during a globe spanning hunt to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the code to a lost bank account filled with gold. But though this man seems to have it all, he's actually close to broke and so he and Jock plan to snatch this coveted painting for themselves. What could go wrong short of everything?
"Mortdecai is very unique and special,” Depp shared. “It's very different from anything I have done before. We haven't seen that type of caper movie for a number of years. If you go back and watch movies like The Pink Panther… there's really something great about those caper films that teeter toward farcical."
The action-comedy film comes from writer/director David Koepp (of the “Jurassic Park,” “Spider-Man” and “Panic Room" fame), flanked by a well-known cast which includes Ewan McGregor, Paul Bettany, Gwyneth Paltrow (“Iron Man”), Olivia Munn (“Magic Mike”), Oliver Platt (“X-Men”), Aubrey Plaza (“Parks and Recreation”), and Jeff Goldblum (“Jurassic Park”).
