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Seen on: 02/23/2012

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The Rum Diary (2011)

Directed by Bruce Robinson

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s ‘The Lost Generation’, Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman and her fiancée, a businessman involved in shady property development deals.  It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.

Rated R | Length 120 minutes

Actors

Johnny Depp | Giovanni Ribisi | Marshall Bell | Jimmy Ortega | Aaron Eckhart | Bill Smitrovich | Amaury Nolasco | Michael Rispoli | Richard Jenkins | Amber Heard | Julian Holloway | Enzo Cilenti | Aaron Lustig | Karimah Westbrook | Natalia Rivera

Viewing Notes

I’ve read a lot of Hunter S. Thompson’s writing, but haven’t read The Rum Diary, so I can’t compare the movie to the book. I can say that it feels like a flawed adaptation. Not sure if that’s due to the source material or the director.

Johnny Depp seems lost in this, teetering between playing a slighter version of his Fear and Loathing character and his pirate persona from Pirates of the Caribbean. Or maybe he’s just playing himself again. I’m not sure I’d know the difference anymore.

There isn’t really a proper story arc here, so even as I neared the end of the movie, I found myself thinking “man, this movie is long and nowhere near ending.” And then it ended. Rather abruptly. Win some, lose some.

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