Jack Sparrow, now an arts dealer?!

Can't remember when last I laughed so hard! Now I have a bad habit when it comes to movies, I only watch a movie once! Its true, believe me, and you can ask those who know me! Its how I am wired! Strange right?! What is worse are the films I have downloaded, I simply watch and then delete, CHIKENA! But I leave some exceptional ones to stray around my PC so that I can always come back to watch again and again again...I simply call these movies my classics! And  the movie Mortdecai starring Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan Mcgregor as lead characters have won their way into the loving arms of my heaven!

The story actually revolves around a painting that is said to be of unmeasurable worth which goes missing after when the last person that possessed it was murdered. The mystery of this painting attracts the attention of the crown and a host of other characters who would go to any length to acquire it.

Mortdecai (Johnny Depp) is an arts dealer who is on the brink of going bankrupt, owing the British government as a result of a huge backlog of unpaid taxes, so he and his beautiful wife Johanna (Gwyneth Paltrow) put up most of their most priceless possessions for sale so they can maintain their bourgeois lifestyle. Mortdecai is brought in as a consultant in the theft and murder case by Inspector Alistair Martland (Ewan Mcgregor) of the Mi5, who also has a huge crush for Joanna since their school days in Oxford, to help in getting back the painting before it gets into the wrong hands. But Mortdecai is also seen as a prime suspect in the missing painting thereby putting him in the line of danger with Russians and a French criminal. With the help of his wife Joanna, and his manservant/thug/bodyguard, Jock (Paul Bettany) Mortdecai unravels the mystery of the painting while also ensuring he is kept alive.

What was interesting about the movie Mortdecai was the simple fun attached to it! Compared to the perceptive complicate nature of movies that is related to art and the even the British cinema, the Mortdecai story line is easy to grasp and enjoy, and Johnny Depp not sparing a bit of his comical personality brought in the Jack Sparrow character we all enjoyed him play  in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. so if you miss that drunk crazy pirate in the ugly feather hat, then this is the film for you!


But what I find most disturbing is its performance at the box office as it was reported that the film Mortdecai raked in $30.4 million after a budget of $60 million was spent to make the film. On the popular movie critic site Rotten Tomatoes, Mortdecai holds a rating of 13% based on 84 reviews. The site called the movie "Aggressively strange and willfully unfunny!"

Chei, that's not fair na! Abi is it beef?! Our very own Jack Sparrow, 13%?! No way, I don't gree joor HABA! Anyway I sha know that the performance of a movie at the box office does not prove if its worth watching or not (yes, na me talk am), so go out there and watch the movie Mortdecai and please, again I plead, PLEEAASEEEE, use your church mind to judge if the movie was supposed to be a flop! Enjoy the film jare and don't mind the beefers, LOL!