I finally like Johnny Depp!

Rating: Null/10 (15 August 2003)

I never liked Johnny Depp, not even when he did really good work coz for some reason, I always found him pretentious but after seeing this movie, I think he's really brilliant, well, at least in this movie. I know he based his character on Keith Richards but somehow he managed to pull off all originality here. He was indeed the life of this movie and eclipsed all the rest, unfortunately, even Geoffrey Rush. Though Orlando Bloom provided the handsome supporting lead, I was thankful the sub-plot love story wasn't pushed into the main story. He looked really good with Keira Knightley - she's one to watch out for. The supporting cast were all good especially Jack Davenport who I regularly saw in 'Coupling' - he had a really different role here. Typical good versus evil storyline but there's no harm in that - it's summer and you want to enjoy yourself so we can leave the difficult movies nearer to Oscar time. This was a very good movie but I hope they never make a sequel to it. Some things are better left to one.