http://music.cornwarning.com/2009/03/09/it-was-the-best-of-johnny-depp-movies-it-was-the-worst-of-johny-depp-movies/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:44:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://music.cornwarning.com/2009/03/09/it-was-the-best-of-johnny-depp-movies-it-was-the-worst-of-johny-depp-movies/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Arp Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:10:11 +0000 http://music.cornwarning.com/?p=162#comment-66 I've always enjoyed this movie (and my tastes have been towards much less brain-intensive fare the past few years), but you're right about Depp - it is a strangely muted performance. And the end (bang the devil who flew down to save him once before) is anticlimactic. But it did turn me on to the author, Arturo Perez-Reverte, who has a few books of this historical mystery variety that I'm convinced is the Da Vinci Code inspiration. I’ve always enjoyed this movie (and my tastes have been towards much less brain-intensive fare the past few years), but you’re right about Depp – it is a strangely muted performance. And the end (bang the devil who flew down to save him once before) is anticlimactic. But it did turn me on to the author, Arturo Perez-Reverte, who has a few books of this historical mystery variety that I’m convinced is the Da Vinci Code inspiration.

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