...he first hour of the film is as successful as anything I've ever seen or read at conveying how the world looks to the drugged.
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05/28/08
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
48 %
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Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 20
Rotten:22
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Consensus: Visually creative, but also aimless, repetitve, and devoid of character development.
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS is a whirlwind of a movie, a wacky, drug-laden story backed by a fist-pumping rock & roll soundtrack featuring everything from Wayne Newton and Tom Jones to Combustible Edison and Dead Kennedys. Journalist... [More]
Starring: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Reviews for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Years from now, it will be reappraised as a misunderstood masterpiece. Well, this is one American critic who's not waiting until years from now.
02/03/08
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04/09/05
Gilliam shows that there is something appealing about drug highs. It wouldn't be honest to say otherwise. And, yes, they'll destroy you. It's honest about that too.
12/06/04
Unlike Trainspotting, Fear and Loathing doesn't shock or fascinate. It simply disgusts and repels.
06/22/04
Top Critic A bizarre masterpiece that invents a brilliantly skewed perspective and sustains it for a nearly impossible 117 minutes.
03/01/04
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05/22/03
If Gilliam was intending to create a film that would disgust, disorient and eventually irritate, then this one’s a bona-fide masterpiece – but don’t expect me to sit through it ever again.
04/28/03
...has an incongruous, stream-of-consciousness tang that requires just the right mood to enjoy.
04/12/03
Fellini's movies work on this level, reveling in their carnival atmosphere while at the same time critiquing them.
03/27/03
Although the picture’s final moments establish it as a morality play, it’s been so previously vacuous that the effort is futile.
02/21/03
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is impeded by both familiarity with its source and esteem for its director. However, the Criterion DVD has a tremendous asset in the collaboration of Hunter Thompson, who appears repeatedly in the disc's supplements.
02/11/03
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