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I absolutely love Johnny Depp’s performance as Mort Rainey. It was just spectacular as his character was so complex and I had alot invested in Mort. I love the way the movie is written as it starts out one way and takes a completely unexpected turn at the end. Something that I didn’t expect and really is completely “out there”. I really felt for Mort as he was going through such a messy divorce. And you think all these things are going wrong for him. But, going through the divorce has caused him to use his creative outlet to get some emotions out and develope “Shooter”, a character that you think is another person that does these horrid things. But turns out that it was really Mort going off the deep end, in my personal opinion, from being alone for a long time. I also felt bad for Amy(Mort’s wife played by Maria Bello)because she really still loves Mort and Mort still loves her.Unfortunately, Amy made a mistake and she delt with the consequences. I thought it was really sad that Mort and Amy didn’t work things out. What I found even more shocking was Mort killing her and her boyfriend(Ted played by Timothy Hutton)in the end. And even though Mort totally went off his rocker, I thought Johnny did such a good job in getting the audience to understand where Mort was coming from. He couldn’t do all those bad things physically, but he could make it so it seemed like someone else did using his mind/creative outlet as he has a real battle with himself. I also thought Johnny and Charles S. Dutton (who plays Ken Karsch, a friend of Mort’s/detective) worked really well together as they had that friendship chemistry. It was just really riveting, as it always is, to watch Johnny do his stuff because he does it so well. The cast and crew did a fantastic job and if you haven’t seen it, definitely check it out when you get a chance.
