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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1998

Terry Gilliam

Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Craig Bierko, Tobey Maguire ...

6.8

57,392

Comedy An adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name. The film details a whacky search for the "American Dream", by Thompson and his crazed, Samoan lawyer. Fueled by the massive amount of drugs they purchased with an advance from a magazine to cover a sporting event in Vegas; they set out in the Red Shark. Encountering police, reporters, gamblers, racers, and hitchhikers; they search for some undefinable thing know only as the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"The closest sensory approximation of an acid trip ever achieved by a mainstream movie and the latest example of Mr. Gilliam's visual bravura."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A horrible mess of a movie, without shape, trajectory or purpose--a one joke movie, if it had one joke (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Jake Hamilton Empire	"Visually incredible and blessed with great performances from Depp and Del Toro, this is destined for cult classic status - but the plot and symbolism are less impressive (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"Disappointing, pointless and repetitive (...) Even with Gilliam's cheeky visual flights it's dated and surprisingly slight."	NEG
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"What elevates the tale from being a mere drug chronicle (...) it's the sense that Gilliam, like Thompson, is always totally in command of his medium, while abandoning himself utterly to unpredictable forces beyond his control."	POS
United States	Duane Byrge The Hollywood Reporter	"An uninspired series of stumblebum scenes (...) Thompson's delirium and genius, including fits of drug-induced dementia and hallucinations, is visualized in the most banal terms."	NEG

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