Director: Bruce Robinson
CAST: Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Rispoli, Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard
CLASSIFICATION: 13 LSD
RUNNING TIME: 120 minutes
Johnny Depp, Puerto Rico and 93 bottles of alcohol a week. Nothing in moderation. Depp In this drama tells the story of the legendary journalist Hunter S Thompson soaked in alcohol-month in 1960 in Puerto Rico when he was a writer still struggling to find their voice, worried that he may indeed have a .
Depp plays Paul Kemp, a journalist who has just taken a job as a news correspondent and writer for a daily newspaper horoscope and staffed at least as dysfunctional as Kemp, and is run by a corrupt editor called Lotterman (Jenkins) . Kemp is a man who has no control when drinking, or their own sense of justice.
Kemp quickly succumbs to the greedy ways of the island. In a place where everything can be bought and sold, Kemp has a deal with a rich man named Sanderson (Eckhart) in need of good press.
Through Sanderson, Kemp appeared to how the better half live on the island and how the distribution of the shadow of wealth contributes to an unstable state of affairs between the Americans and the natives.
In the film, Puerto Rico is a nation of hidden wealth. The story takes us through the sequences of their damage, poverty of the island to its pristine tropical paradise of blue beaches.
While the film is very cleverly crafted in terms of its history, the address shows a slight bit of rust. The film spends much time setting up the local color with lush detail, while the second runs to completion.
What we have instead is a series cheerful, with no intention of mini-adventures on alcohol-soaked writers in Puerto Rico in 1960 - a promising topic, no doubt, but it needs a bit of concentration and discipline to make it work the screen.
A bomb of a blonde Chenault, played by Amber Heard as Mrs. Sanderson is the perfect distraction for Kemp, which complicates things.
We also have Giovanni Ribisi, who plays the role of crime dirty, neglected and Looney and religion reporter that adds character to the story entertaining.
The film has set the tone for the era of linen suits for old cars including a 1959 Chevy Corvette red.
We have a good time with it, but you can tell that the actors are having much more fun than we are. The sequences of the drunken antics in which Kemp and one or more of its partners are in trouble with the police is what the film is mainly composed of.
Although the issue of him trying to find their voice is the focus of the film, Thompson may have found his real life, but The Rum Diary never does.
* If you liked ... Blow (2001) with Depp as a drug dealer ... it is possible that in this way.
