Review – The Libertine

Much fuss has been made over the years about Hollywood’s corrupting influence on America’s youth. In response, Tinseltown would be well advised to use this particular production as its first line of defense. Kids should be forced to watch this movie, the argument would go, because it will convince them that sex is so deadly dull that nobody in his or her right mind would ever want to try it. Johnny Depp stars as a thoroughly debauched English lord who develops an obsessive interest in an actress. However, my favorite cast member has to be John Malkovich. As the King of England he delivers his lines in such a high-speed mumble that it’s often unclear whether or not he’s even speaking English. I thought about turning the subtitles on, but then I didn’t get the impression that the story would be all that much more interesting if the dialogue had been intelligible. See if desperate