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The movie is about manic energy, but you can feel everyone straining just to get the next shot on the screen. Jul 21, 2015 | Full Review…
The movie is about manic energy, but you can feel everyone straining just to get the next shot on the screen.
Dave Kehr
Where the Buffalo Roam is a shambling stiff, destined to tarnish the reputations of everyone responsible for it. Jul 21, 2015 | Full Review…
Where the Buffalo Roam is a shambling stiff, destined to tarnish the reputations of everyone responsible for it.
Gary Arnold
[Where the Buffalo Roam] features a number of amusing set-pieces of irreverent lunacy, but lack of serious substance renders film too frivolous and detached from reality. Mar 26, 2009 | Full Review…
[Where the Buffalo Roam] features a number of amusing set-pieces of irreverent lunacy, but lack of serious substance renders film too frivolous and detached from reality.
Variety Staff
Laughs aplenty for people who use drugs as a pose, but most will be left wondering if half a pint of Bass doesn't qualify as a revolutionary action. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
Laughs aplenty for people who use drugs as a pose, but most will be left wondering if half a pint of Bass doesn't qualify as a revolutionary action.
John Gill
Mr. Murray is clever whenever he is audible... But the story rambles desperately, and there are times when the screenplay is barely there. Mr. Thompson's only identifiable quality soon becomes facetiousness, and it wears terribly thin. Jan 15, 2005
Mr. Murray is clever whenever he is audible... But the story rambles desperately, and there are times when the screenplay is barely there. Mr. Thompson's only identifiable quality soon becomes facetiousness, and it wears terribly thin.
Janet Maslin
This is the kind of bad movie that's almost worth seeing. But there are large things wrong with Where the Buffalo Roam. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
This is the kind of bad movie that's almost worth seeing. But there are large things wrong with Where the Buffalo Roam.
Roger Ebert
While [Bill] Murray is more than likable in his role, he isn't able to capture the larger-than-life figure he set out to inhabit. Oct 18, 2017 | Full Review…
While [Bill] Murray is more than likable in his role, he isn't able to capture the larger-than-life figure he set out to inhabit.
Austin Trunick
An interesting and savage little piece. Jul 21, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
An interesting and savage little piece.
Dick Fiddy
A sporadically amusing, frustratingly scattershot look at Thompson's life and times. Jul 21, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A sporadically amusing, frustratingly scattershot look at Thompson's life and times.
The trouble is that the movie can't decide if it's trying for laughs or social statement. Jul 21, 2015 | Full Review…
The trouble is that the movie can't decide if it's trying for laughs or social statement.
People Staff
The film invites us to chuckle along with Thompson as he indulges in a series of objectionalble episodes. Jul 21, 2015 | Full Review…
The film invites us to chuckle along with Thompson as he indulges in a series of objectionalble episodes.
David Sterritt
It's just a ramshackle package of bizarre anecdotes, some only marginally connected to Thompson's writings. Apr 9, 2007 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
It's just a ramshackle package of bizarre anecdotes, some only marginally connected to Thompson's writings.
Rob Gonsalves
It's about Hunter Thompson and is with Bill Murray, so it have everything to go right. But a screenplay kill a probably good movie that become silly and flat picture.
Super Reviewer
Ridiculous but still entertaining.
This was the Hunter S. Thompson movie before Terry Gilliam decided to do his version. It's more of a series of episodic vignettes based on several of Thompson's stories instead of being an adaptation of just one. It basically covers Thompson's relationship with Chicano lawyer "Carl Lazlo Esq." during Hunter's attempts to cover Super Bowl VI and the '72 Presidential Campaign, as well as some other crazy shenanigans. The film doesn't quite do justice to Hunter, his relatiosnhip with Lazlo, or the source material, but it is faithful to the spirit of gonzo journalism and Thompson's nuttiness. Plus, the performances are not too bad. Their far less histrionic than the ones in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but the actos still really get into character, and it's funny as hell watching Bill Murray and Peter Boyle do Thompson and Lazlo, respectively. This is a chaotic mess of a film, but it is rather fascinating to watch. It's not really a complete success as a movie, but it is entertaining. It's kind of a bummer that this is so underappreciated and not given all that much time of day. You gotta be in the right mood for something like this, but it is worth a watch, despite the flaws.
Watching this movie, I was expecting a comedy, but it's really more of a biography of journalist Hunter S. Thompson, and as that it's interesting, but not enjoyable enough. Only see this if you're a fan of his work.
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