Waste of talent (and my time)

Rating: 1/10 (4 June 2013)

I knew that this movie was based on a stage play /musical and that it's sort of a horror movie before watching it, but even not being a fan of either, presence of Johnny Depp and direction of Tim Burton promised to make it a fun black humour comedy or may be not a comedy but still something quite entertaining. And it started this way and was still promising until about half way through the movie. Everything was making some sense, but then it was just like somebody completely shut off Tim Burton's imagination (and common sense) and everything went complete bonkers
*** SPOILER ALERT ***  I'm not sure about a stage play or a musical it's based on, but in the movie, Todd Sweeney (Johnny Depp) is a wronged man looking for revenge on the people who sent him in exile for the crime he didn't do and stole from him his beautiful wife and little daughter (very much similar to Count Monte Cristo as it seemed to me). But then it turns so much different. After our anti-hero fails to cut the throat of his arch-enemy, he and his friend in crime (Mrs Lovett) decide to kill just all people they can lure in his barber shop and then make meat pies from them. Why?? At this moment I was a bit stunned as I couldn't see a connection between looking for revenge and then settling for just killing anyone who needs a shave. It didn't make sense to me. Historically, Todd Sweeney was more of a serial killer than any kind of a hero, but if they gave us a story explaining his motives and showing that he was after all not a bad guy, then why they decided to make him so bad afterwords? Eventually, after killing tons of innocent people, he kills all his enemies as well, and his wife (who wasn't dead), and Mrs Lovett (who didn't tell him about his wife not being dead), and almost kills his daughter as well, but gets destructed and killed himself instead.
Verdict: Do not waste your time as it's probably the worst of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's collaboration.