20 Worst Movie Moments Of 2015

15. Mortdecai - The Moment Where Johnny Depp Is Terrible Yet Again

In a comedy which is being referred to as 'psychotically unfunny', where deliberations are underway as to whether it constitutes the worst film in every single cast member's CV, there's talk that this may not even be the worst film John Depp Jnr. has made this decade. No, I€™m not calling him €˜Johnny€™. He€™s fifty-two, for god€™s sake. How the former indie darling - formerly a gifted, idiosyncratic character actor trapped in the body of a matinee idol - has managed to lose control of his career so thoroughly is a mystery for the ages. It clearly started in 2003 with the beginning of the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise, in which Depp played Captain Jack Sparrow, a drunken spoiler who lurched through every scene gurgling amiably while Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley€™s characters tried to hold the plot together. Since then, it€™s gotten much, much worse. Depp€™s played around two dozen parts since the first Pirates movie twelve years ago, and only five of them can be considered to be straight roles (ie, characters that aren€™t parading some witless combination of fright wig, heavy make-up, prosthetics, ludicrous accent or wildly mugging facial tics). His ongoing collaboration with coasting hack Tim Burton seems to be an exercise in each man enabling the other, meth-head style, to do lazier, sh*ttier work. The grimly unwatchable Mortdecai is nearly the most godawful film of 2015, representing a career worst for everyone in it€ but for John Christopher Depp II, his half-assed Terry-Thomas impersonation is just the latest in a long line of capering, gurning embarrassments.