Mortdecai 2015 Movie Overview

Mortdecai is a 2015 American action comedy film directed by David Koepp and written by Eric Aronson. The film is adapted from the book anthology Mortdecai (specifically its first installment Don’t Point that Thing at Me) written by Kyril Bonfiglioli. It stars Johnny Depp in the title role and also features Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Munn, Paul Bettany, and Jeff Goldblum. The film was released by Lionsgate on January 23, 2015. Mortdecai was a box office bomb, and received overwhelmingly negative reviews.

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Lord Charlie Mortdecai (Main Man), an unscrupulous art dealer and swindler, is accosted in Hong Kong by one of his victims, a gangster named Fang. Jock, Main Man’s faithful manservant, extricates his master before they can be killed by Fang’s gunmen. They return to London, where Main Man and his wife, Johanna, consider ways to pay off their crushing debt. A painting by Francisco Goyabecomes the target of an elaborate theft which results in the murders of an art restorer and one of the thieves. Inspector Alistair Martland is put on the case. Martland, who has been in love with Johanna since college, asks Main Man to assist him. Martland believes the prime suspect to be Emil Strago. Main Man agrees to help in exchange for 10% of the insurance money.

Main Man interviews people affiliated with the art world, including Spinoza, an art smuggler and another of Mortdecai’s victims. While they argue, Strago arrives and shoots at them, killing Spinoza; Main Man and Jock escape unharmed. Johanna meets with a man known as The Duke, who knows the thief and says that the painting conceals the location of a hoard of Nazi gold. Main Man is kidnapped by thugs working for a Russian named Romanov. Romanov and Strago think that Main Man has the painting. Romanov threatens torture unless Main Man surrenders it, but Main Man escapes through a window and Jock spirits him away.