Go if you're a raging Anglophile with an afternoon to burn or you just love Depp, even at his hammiest. Otherwise, don't point this thing at you.
– Leah Greenblatt,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Jan 2015
rotten:
Depp's strenuously unfunny performance turns a frivolous caper comedy into a grim death march to the closing credits.
– Rafer Guzman,
Newsday,
23 Jan 2015
rotten:
Mortdecai isn't particularly funny, but it's also not the Pistachio Disguisey 2015 train wreck the Internet has spent the last few months anticipating. It's brainless, but it's painless.
– Alex Pappademas,
Grantland,
23 Jan 2015
rotten:
With art-heist caper Mortdecai, Johnny Depp tries his darnedest to start a kooky Austin Powers-like franchise with a side of bumbling Insp. Clouseau. But dash it all if it isn't a crashing bore, old bean.