Good film, although its difficult to stomach one his syphilis advances, but syphilis should never really be portrayed glamorously.

Interesting attempt for a period film. Johnny Depp is all tops, like most of the time. Samantha Morton is remarkable and John Malkovich gives a normal well done performance. The camera work is innovative, too, employing modern camera moves to a period piece which normally has some codex of "established camera moves". However, at some point the movie loses its strength and focus so that it is somewhat blurred in the last third of the movie. Watchable for the performances nevertheless!

This reminds Philip Kaufman's Quills. The lives of main protaconists have similarities, but here director goes even more ruff spheres. Johnny Depp is brilliant. So is Samantha Morton and Malkovich, but the story is spoken to death. And everything feels ultimately pointless. I liked the color world of the movie though.

Great cinematography tarnished by totally unnecessary and utterly distracting vignetting effects. Great performances all round, but my overall feeling is that the film lacked a bit of plot. Greatly enjoyed the costumes, the dildos and the language. Bawdy til the end.

Malkovich convinced Depp to take over the role he had in the theatre, while he himslef plays the king. The ending is a bit disappointing though.

It's nice to see a period piece so grimy and dingy, as opposed to the standard colorful opulence. Depp takes on a tough role and runs with it.

Morton, Malkovich & Depp do a good job with a script that has quite a few interesting moments but never coheres into a whole. Cinematography and soundtrack are both well done, lifting this up to "solid period piece"-status.

Decent Depp performance; boring execution.

Incomprehendable, silly and extremely boring. You win some and you lose some; among bad Depp movies, this definitely reaches Pirates 3.