Starting into "Who killed Johnny?", what I was expecting was a solidly made trash movie, that provides me with a bizarre scenario and light entertainment.
Unfortunately the actual movie didn't really meet that. While I was even a bit surprised that the production itself looked pretty good in terms of visual criteria, the story left me behind questioning.
First of all it is not really consistent to name this movie "Who killed Johnny", since this question not only never gets answered during the movie, it doesn't even really get raised. The Johnny Depp double is only visible during a minor amount of the screen time and you could have even left this whole side plot out without losing anything of importance.
While not being a firework of gags, from time to time characters were presented that just didn't seem to fit the general tone at all. The introduction of Jambo and Gudrun, as well as the Dealer just leaves you wondering what they were supposed to tell us.
Even though the end didn't come as a total surprise and only after a climax of maximal length, I still found it somewhat nice how the two layers of the movie were led together. Unfortunately, this isn't enough to make up for all the strange attempts before. There's always a chance that I simply don't get the message but to be honest this one just felt kind of random.
Unfortunately the actual movie didn't really meet that. While I was even a bit surprised that the production itself looked pretty good in terms of visual criteria, the story left me behind questioning.
First of all it is not really consistent to name this movie "Who killed Johnny", since this question not only never gets answered during the movie, it doesn't even really get raised. The Johnny Depp double is only visible during a minor amount of the screen time and you could have even left this whole side plot out without losing anything of importance.
While not being a firework of gags, from time to time characters were presented that just didn't seem to fit the general tone at all. The introduction of Jambo and Gudrun, as well as the Dealer just leaves you wondering what they were supposed to tell us.
Even though the end didn't come as a total surprise and only after a climax of maximal length, I still found it somewhat nice how the two layers of the movie were led together. Unfortunately, this isn't enough to make up for all the strange attempts before. There's always a chance that I simply don't get the message but to be honest this one just felt kind of random.