Johnny Depp Fans Accuse Critics of ‘Bias’ after ‘Ebenezer’ Lands Lackluster Rotten Tomatoes Score ...Saudi Arabia

Johnny Depp’s new film Ebenezer has released in theaters nationwide to middling reviews, and Depp’s fans argue the critics aren’t being fair.

As of Saturday evening, the film — in which Depp plays the famously miserable Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol reimagined in a slightly more sympathetic light — has a 53% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, seven points below the site’s “fresh” threshold.

“Depp is easily the worst Scrooge I’ve ever seen,” wrote Odie Henderson of the Boston Globe. Brandon Yu at the New York Times called it “bland in imagination,” while critic Liz Shannon Miller at Consequence described Depp’s performance as a “sad joke.”

Many Depp fans, however, have pointed to the disparity between the Rotten Tomatoes rating among critics and its rating among the general audience: the film has an 89% audience score, which some fans take as evidence of critics not giving the film a fair shake.

People who been falsly accused and had their career ruined now have to redeem themselves? What?Or does David here ignore that evidence proved she lied with malicious intent, like her admitting on audio several times he never abused her? t.co/UaSsHQqfdF

“This is just a ‘I hate Johnny Depp’ review,” one user replied to a negative review from IndieWire critic David Ehrlich. Another user responded, “Dislike Depp’s performance all you want. But when your bias becomes part of the review, you’re no longer reviewing the actor, you’re prosecuting the person.”

Ebenezer is Depp’s first major film since he won his highly-publicized, contentious defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard in 2022.

Although a UK court had ruled that 12 of Depp’s 14 alleged incidents of domestic violence towards her were proven to be substantially true, Depp’s Virginia-based defamation lawsuit (which relied on a decision made by a jury rather than a judge) proved more successful: Depp won the trial and was awarded over $10 million from Heard.

“The movie is bad because I hate Johnny Depp and think he’s guilty even though it was proven in a court of law he was innocent.”Thanks. I am going to see this now. Wasn’t planning on it before. t.co/qSdxVPyWJN

Although Depp and his supporters have argued he has been fully vindicated by the court outcome, there remain plenty of people who side with Heard. Journalist Michael Hobbes, for instance, described Depp as a “textbook abuser” and Heard as a “textbook abuse victim” in an extensive 2022 essay.

Hobbes argued Heard was the subject of a mass social media smear campaign, one that exploited the public’s simplistic understanding of domestic abuse dynamics. Many filmgoers and critics share similar takes on the trial, which some Depp fans believe is tainting their perception of Ebenezer.

“These negative reviews of Ebenezer from ‘professional critics’ boil down to: ‘Johnny is a bad person and distracts me from the main point of the film’ tells you how the accusations continue to ruin his life no matter how many people insist otherwise,” writes the fan account Best of Johnny Depp, receiving over 20,000 likes.

Johnny Depp was “accused” of punching, slapping, kicking, headbutting and choking Amber Heard. A judge found that 12 of the 14 alleged assaults had been proven. Yet we collectively blamed her, called her a liar, mocked her trauma, and turned her into a punchline. Too this day… t.co/OyyxKAhFI5

While Depp’s divisive reputation has undeniably bled into some critics’ reviews of Ebenezer, moviegoers have noted that Depp’s film career was already on the decline even before Heard accused him of anything. Sherlock Gnomes, the second Fantastic Beasts film, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales were all poorly received by critics.

“He was already being shown the door by studios even before the Amber Heard stuff because his performances got lazy and his schtick was tired!” wrote @TruculentTexan in a viral post. “Audiences AND critics were tired of him!”

On top of everything else wrong with this movie, JD’s performance is *terrible* (no wonder reviews were embargoed):“He seems to have become very bad at acting”“the supporting characters offer such a welcome contrast to whatever Depp is doing” (1/2) t.co/leA9usEoB6

Regardless of what Depp’s critics or supporters have to say, Ebenezer has had a decent opening weekend as far as the box office is concerned.

As of Saturday, Deadline predicts it will pull in around $20 million in its opening weekend. The true test, however, is how much (or how little) that number drops in its second weekend. Whether Ebenezer is truly Depp’s “comeback” film will depend on whether the film has legs.

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