eric262003 In the 30+ years as a performer, Johnny Depp has always found way to reinvent himself as a performer and has always made us invested into the roles he's played. Even the oddball characters, Depp has depth to every role that's given to him. Not just the physical shaping of the characters, but the personality to go with the character/s.In "Don Juan DeMarco" Depp plays a psychiatric case who thinks he's the Lothario of all Lotharios, even going far as sporting a Zorro mask and speaking with a Spanish accent. He eventually tries to manipulate his psychiatrist Dr. Jack Mickler (Marlon Brando) into thinking he's Don Juan who's unenthusiastic in curing this eccentric patient.Brando in his heyday had outweighed Depp in terms of depth in the role his played. From "The Godfather" to "A Streetcar Named Desire" to "On the Waterfront" he could outperform anyone who crossed his path. But it seemed like in the later years of his career, Brando seemed like his heart was just no longer in the business. In his younger days, he was energetic, robust and larger then life, in his twilight years, his weight got so overwhelming, it was just so painful to see him let himself go like that. It's quite sad actually.If his composure to move around about doesn't raise some concern, it often makes me wonder if he actually even caring about performing in general. The trademark mumbling he's most famous for may have touched hearts with people from the past. That's because it felt like a thing of importance. In this movie, his mumbling is demoted to petty incoherence. Is it possible that writer/director Jeremy Leven was intimidated by the larger than Marlon Brando that he thought he should speak by way of articulation? Most of the movie seems too unbearably uncomfortable to adjust to the presence of the heavy-set Brando who had to be filmed from the waist up and where one who has to manipulate us into thinking that they can conceal it long enough so that no one would notice it.Leven's complex initiative to infuse bored-out-of-his-mind Jack, who's near retirement into showing some sort of interest with the love hungry Don Juan whose youthful charm matched with his honest approach tries everything he can to conceal any kind of personal interest in him. Even Depp has his limits when it comes to embodying sappy dialogue.Suddenly his words of poetic lingers into the mind of Jack as he tries to make love with his wife, Marilyn (Faye Dunaway) who's turned on by his seductive overtures while she takes her Metamucil, estrogen and calcium medication to surpass the effects of aging before they get down to business behind the sheets.Even the performers feel the off-sided effects of Brando's acting which makes everything all out of balance. Dunaway seems so full of life enjoying her bedtime scenes with Brando without even caring that the scenes written looked forced and feels very awkward. It's like everybody is having a ball and that at times feels very unnatural. It like you go to night out with friends and all the jokes come off as private.At least it doesn't hinder the performance of Johnny Depp. Depp does successfully cement his role as Don Juan even if the other performers are meandering in other directions and has the right facial features that could make hearts melt. That picturesque complexion like a 17th century painting is the sole reason why this film works while the others are in their little world. See this film for Johnny Depp's performance because he's the only performer who truly cares about what's happening in the script.

Smoreni Zmaj First time I ever went to movies with my first girlfriend, first encounter with Johnny Depp and forever one of my favorite movies.9/10Character is based on Lord Byron's Don Huan, movie is produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Kamen was in charge of music, main song is one of the most beautiful love songs ever written, and with such geniuses as Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway and, one of the best actors of all times, Marlon Brando in leading roles, movie is simply perfect.In my opinion, essence of this movie, and also essence of life itself, is perfectly described in one of the last sentences of this movie: "Why not..."

talisencrw I realize that I gave this too many marks, but if there's anything I have realized about cinema, it can best be said by a line that I watched, performed by Jean-Louis Trintignant, where he stated (and I paraphrase), something like, 'I can't remember the movie, but I can recall my feelings', and that sums up nicely why I feel the way I do about the movie. It's an interesting idea acted well by very good actors (a lot of people dismiss Marlon Brando's work here, but I don't think it's that bad, honestly). If anything, the problem here is the movie doesn't know where to go after it's decent start. That's why I think we haven't seen much more of writer/director Jeremy Leven since then.

Cristi_Ciopron This gently fanciful comedy is genuinely charming and funny, leisured and mellow, heartrending; it may have been set up as a vehicle, but the direction has zest and coherence, and Brando was generally very good in his '90s comedies, in his late career, masterful and mind-blowing.It's one of the last endearing B movies made in the '80s style, prolonged in the '90s. In the '80s, these B outings offered room for leisure and fun.'Don Juan DeMarco' is intriguing, tempered, lyrical, lively, very likable, vastly good-natured. Enjoy Depp's intelligent, thorough, tactful, subtle and artful acting. There's a side of choreography to all this.This movie is an original Latino fantasy and reading of a myth (it does a bit of that, though), in every way superior to Rodriguez's disheartening trash that was to pour afterward.Reading may create a lyrical disposition, seeing a movie requires it, presupposes it, needs it. You must adjust swiftly.It was an one-off for Leven, who directed, he was 54 yrs by the time the movie got released, he went off writing a bit, even directing another movie, he has been a clinical psychologist, an interesting guy.