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The Libertine

The Libertine

2004
Drama
1h 54m
The Libertine follows the adventures of John Wilmot (Depp), the second Earl of Rochester. Known for his scandalous ways, he lives life in pursuit of vice with little recourse. (The Weinstein Company)
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The Libertine

2004
Drama
1h 54m
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Rated 03 Aug 2008
75
23rd
This could have been heartbreaking. Instead, we get a rather well acted bore. Still, it's a credible attempt to capture the allure of self-destruction. It also has interesting things to say about why we watch actors at all.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
59
54th
Merchant Ivory's "The Rules Of Engagement"- it really is like costumed Bret Easton Ellis. A colorfully messy, often campy debauchery-fest featuring shallow characters (but not characterizations) and given an ugly chamber-piece look from Lawrence Dunmore that effectively coats the audience in grime and implicates them in the voyeristic appeal of the destruction of the beautiful Johnny Depp in a way John Water could only dream of.
Rated 14 Jul 2008
96
95th
A portrait of 'the Earl of Rochester', who seems to be a cross between Giacomo Girolamo Casanova and Lord Byron. Instantly dislikeable and to be admired, I followed Depp breathlessly. The movie is ambitious in it's artifice and machinations, but ultimately, I had to say they pulled it off. I have to admit I particularly liked the references to 17th century culture, where I picked them up. Makes me feel clever.
Rated 30 Jul 2008
75
56th
Really enjoyed Depp in this movie, it's just not terribly memorable.
Rated 05 Dec 2010
20
6th
Incomprehendable, silly and extremely boring. You win some and you lose some; among bad Depp movies, this definitely reaches Pirates 3.
Rated 19 Jul 2012
45
9th
I wanted to drink a gallon of Holy Water to clean my soul by the end! The cinematography was a joke, the effects/make-up looked like it was done by an overachieving monster movie flunkie, and yet Depp's performance and well-written dialogue managed to make watching this movie interesting if not amusing.
Rated 15 Feb 2007
60
62nd
Pretty good.
Rated 10 Jun 2007
90
84th
Well acted..but the movie wasn't my cup of tea
Rated 14 Aug 2007
40
15th
There's a lot of good stuff here, but it's all ultimately pointless.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
75
60th
Possibly Depp's finest performance to date.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
60
28th
Marvelous cinematography in not such a bad movie.
Rated 16 Sep 2007
65
49th
i recommend it for the lead performance
Rated 20 Jun 2008
85
68th
Sometimes I want to change the Score to 5, sometimes I think the current evaluation is accurate. That is certainly a good thing - the movie made me think about it even a long time after I saw it.
Rated 07 Jul 2008
34
26th
not so good
Rated 25 Jul 2008
37
8th
This is what I think depp is probably like in real life. The movie is self indulgent, pretentious, and sick in a non interesting way. oooh, you're so witty Mr. Wilmot, you're such a badboy, you're soo interesting, tell me some more how interesting you are!
Rated 25 Aug 2008
70
63rd
Johnny Depp is a magnificent bastard for 2 hours, playing the Earl of Rochester in the 1600's. You WILL hate him. A good character study, but not much of substance actually happens.
Rated 29 Dec 2008
20
6th
Gross. Bad. Boring.
Rated 31 Dec 2008
80
79th
The language was a bit fruity for my liking, but this is full of stellar performances. Johnny Depp continually proves that he's not only the best actor of our generation, but that he makes bloody brave choices too. Be warned that this is a filthy film (sexually as well as the muck littering London and the countryside, £3,672 went into making elegantly carved 17th-century dildos.) and if England was this debauched in the 1600's we've actually IMPROVED, but you'll be hard pushed to see better perf
Rated 03 Feb 2009
62
56th
Decadence at its top but well-told.
Rated 05 Jun 2009
70
55th
Good film, although its difficult to stomach one his syphilis advances, but syphilis should never really be portrayed glamorously.
Rated 15 Jun 2009
61
51st
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.
Rated 20 Jun 2009
78
56th
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!
Rated 22 Jul 2009
70
59th
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.
Rated 19 Aug 2009
51
40th
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.
Rated 20 Aug 2011
1
17th
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.
Rated 04 Sep 2011
34
21st
Decent Depp performance; boring execution.
Rated 27 Jan 2012
3
45th
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.
Rated 07 Jun 2012
66
30th
Grimy tragedy with a cynical air, ambitious and compelling in parts, but Wilmot's jadedness rubs off on us: we end up not caring.
Rated 31 Mar 2015
60
39th
Overlong, often sloppy.
Rated 26 Jun 2020
50
35th
ger; [the libertine]; ein earl aus england ist bekannt für seinen ausartenden lebensstil bei frauen, alkohol und gedichten - gezeigt in einem unbeschönten lebenswerk.;
Rated 09 Nov 2020
51
11th
Grim, unpleasantly ugly portrait of Depp's titular rogue; he's not kidding when he tells us "you will not like me", unfortunately Dunmore's pretty but leaden direction means we are not particularly interested either, following a slow moving descent into ugliness and decay, without any insight into what makes Wilmot tick. Depp does his best to bring some life to this, but one wonders what the more sinewy and enigmatic Malkovich would have done with the role (here more or less wasted in support).
Rated 17 Dec 2021
85
48th
The movie that turned me into a Johnny Depp hater into a "Wow, that guy can act" kinda person.
Rated 26 Feb 2023
60
42nd
I know the "show, don't tell" is too often given as an advice, but in this case it would have worked better in letting you know the decadence of the character. I don't mean to have sex scenes every two seconds, but the real life man was known to partying all the time, but in the movie you see more emo wallowing alone than anything. You are kept aware only because at some point someone will drop a comment, as if to convince the audience it really happened off screen.

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