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Visually creative, but also aimless, repetitive, and devoid of character development.
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It's certainly distinctive, looking at times like Richard Lester put through a postmodernist blender. May 2, 2012 | Full Review…
It's certainly distinctive, looking at times like Richard Lester put through a postmodernist blender.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
(Gilliam's) vision is too reflexively comic to evoke the shadows of dread in Thompson's writing. Sep 7, 2011 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
(Gilliam's) vision is too reflexively comic to evoke the shadows of dread in Thompson's writing.
Owen Gleiberman
Pic serves up a sensory overload without any compensatory reflection on the outlandish and irresponsible behavior on view. Mar 26, 2009
Pic serves up a sensory overload without any compensatory reflection on the outlandish and irresponsible behavior on view.
Todd McCarthy
A film of brilliant moments, but sadly less coherent - and, on senses, rather less personal - than most of Gilliam's work. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
A film of brilliant moments, but sadly less coherent - and, on senses, rather less personal - than most of Gilliam's work.
Geoff Andrew
It's really a series of sketches on one theme. Jun 18, 2002 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
It's really a series of sketches on one theme.
Edward Guthmann
If you encountered characters like this on an elevator, you'd push a button and get off at the next floor. Here the elevator is trapped between floors for 128 minutes. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
If you encountered characters like this on an elevator, you'd push a button and get off at the next floor. Here the elevator is trapped between floors for 128 minutes.
Roger Ebert
Unless viewed through the prism of psychedelic habituates, it is unlikely audiences will find much to savour in Gilliam's picture. Nov 24, 2014 | Rating: D+
Unless viewed through the prism of psychedelic habituates, it is unlikely audiences will find much to savour in Gilliam's picture.
Glenn Dunks
One of Terry Gilliam's worst films (almost unwatchable) Jul 26, 2012 | Rating: C
One of Terry Gilliam's worst films (almost unwatchable)
Emanuel Levy
A peculiar and oddly haunting achievement. May 2, 2012 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
A peculiar and oddly haunting achievement.
Maitland McDonagh
Bizarre, unpredictable yet strangely alluring. May 2, 2012 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Bizarre, unpredictable yet strangely alluring.
Film4 Staff
The film is intensely pretentious, far too clever for its own good. May 2, 2012 | Full Review…
The film is intensely pretentious, far too clever for its own good.
Paul Fischer
It's larger-than life, wild, dizzy, colourful and vulgar, and goes round in circles - for a very long time. May 2, 2012 | Full Review…
It's larger-than life, wild, dizzy, colourful and vulgar, and goes round in circles - for a very long time.
Louise Keller
A surrealist portrait, characters lost and visually innovative, a ride to a psychdelic, coloful and Las Vegas from Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing is great. Fresh.
Super Reviewer
It's visually appealing and has Depp and Del Toro at their craziest, however that's all that is carrying the film. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is wildly senseless and the plot is just as hallucinating as the symptoms of this drug-induced tirade. 2/5
Into and/or in search of the heart of the American dream, Raoul Duke(Depp) and his attorney(Del Toro) take a road trip to Las Vegas from Los Angeles where sportswriter Duke(Hunter S. Thompson) is to cover some races in the desert. Loaded up with large quantities of just about every illegal drug, alcohol and even grapefruit for an experience worthy of writing about. Add an invitation from the national conference of district attorneys to attend a four day seminar on narcotics and dangerous drugs and it makes things that much more interesting. This means loads of cops and from all over which just means there will be more to write about. Let's just not worry about the paranoia, it's all part of the journey here. Basically, it's an out of control experience of running on mescaline, LSD, speed, cocaine, large quantities of alcohol among other intoxicants turning Duke and Dr. Gonzo into complete madmen in a town that never sleeps. So you'd gather that it would be a rather bad trip, and you'd be right. But when it comes to "Gonzo Journalism", you do what it takes to get a story, whatever it may be; even if it is a story of no importance. "Uppers are no longer stylish. Methedrine is almost as rare, on the 1971 market, as pure acid or DMT. "Consciousness Expansion" went out with LBJ...and it is worth noting, historically, that downers came in with Nixon." Hunter S. Thompson
The visuals and general creativity continue to develop and thrive throughout, its a shame the story and characters don't.
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