Tim Burton's Otto e Mezzo

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2010)

Tim Burton's movies are colorful, visually and spiritually both. His movies are art and entertainment, a mixture of both. May be he tells the best tales. He is one of my all time favorite directors, even if he made a few disappointing movies to me like Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. One more thing about Charlie, it was disappointing, but Johnny Depp saved it. As for Johnny Depp, he is a "colorful" actor you know, almost all the characters he played were colorful and eccentric. As you know, Tim Burton worked with him a few times and people call this Burton-Depp corporation. Ed Wood is a black and white film. In any case, it does not matter at all, but a black and white Tim Burton film doesn't work at all. There is nothing interesting or dramatic in Ed Wood and the movie was lack of real entertainment and art so it is tasteless like Fellini's Otto e Mezzo. The plot, if there is a plot, it is uninteresting. Ed Wood is not that bad like Otto e Mezzo, but I hardly finished it. Johnny Depp was unbelievably not interesting and his performance was amateurish, he was like an amateur who tries to be Ed Wood or imitates Ed Wood. I disappointed. The other actors are between existence and non existence except Martin Landau. Especially, for Bill Murray, if you saw him in Broken Flowers or Lost in Translation, probably you will say that No, this is not Bill Murray or he is not in his mood.