10 Most Insufferable Johnny Depp Performances

9. Frank Tupelo - The Tourist

The Tourist is, by any definition, a very odd piece of work. Not sure whether it wants to be a drama or a comedy, it sort of settles to be both at the same time, but also none of those things, rendering it as a kind of tone-deaf genre hybrid that feels like it was directed by an alien. At the centre of the movie is the "relationship" between Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, who both play "characters," but c'mon, these aren't characters - they're mannequins in expensive costumes. Depp essentially plays a "fish out of water" for the sum of The Tourist, but it doesn't feel like he's really acting his part as much as living it for real. Presumably he had no idea what was happening over the course of production, or why he lacked so much chemistry with Angelina Jolie, which explains the "deer in the headlights" nature of his performance. Insufferable in its unrelenting blandness, it's a truly naff role.
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