Based on a book by Hunter S Thompson the film is directed by, and screenplay written by, Bruce Robinson of Withnail and I fame - how could it go wrong? Adapted by Robinson as a tribute to Thompson I had read a review that said it was a bit muddled but personally I loved it. More conventional than you might expect given the subject but it shows the chaotic lifestyle lived by Thompson and his fellow journalists in Puerto Rico. Johnny Depp is great as Thompson's alter ego, Paul Kemp, of course but Depp's is just one of many good performances. When Thompson/Kemp drops acid for the first time his eyes are opened and his journalism becomes focused on exposing the 'bastards'. I'm generally of the opinion that films don't need to be more than 90 mins long but this one is 2 hours and the time raced by which I think is the bottom line indicator of how good a film is (an entirely subjective measure of course).
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