Genre:
Comedy
Directed
by: Bruce Robinson
Starring:
Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli
Running
time: 120 minutes
This
2011 movie is based on the novel of the same name written by Hunter S.
Thompson. I haven’t read the book, so I cannot make any comparisons. That being
said, I must admit I was quite a bit disappointed by the film.
Johnny
Depp is convincing yet again here and the movie starts off interestingly
enough. This is a story of a writer who cannot seem to find his voice and sell
his books. Thus, he finds a job as a journalist in Puerto Rico. He counts on
some colleagues to help him get acclimated to the area, but what he did not
expect was to fall in love with a woman that is already spoken for, by a
powerful man in San Juan. His problems are only just beginning at that point.
The
premise of the movie is very interesting: A writer trying to find his voice.
The road taken in this movie to get there is a big mess though. Soon enough, the
film started going down too many different trails all at once, getting
everybody lost along the way. This movie had potential. A great cast can make a
big impact, but all we got is some rambling that became all so uninteresting in
the end. Maybe the problem was the source material, but this movie didn’t do
much to build upon it in a visual sense.
Rating:
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