Reviews

Gilliam's films are either hit or miss with me, but Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas falls under the hit side of his filmography.

The film oozes with film noir style and he populates the film with memorable characters.

No idea what the movie was about going in, all I knew was that it was considered a classic noir film and it lives up to that.

The story elements from his life hit familiar beats so while there were no real surprises here, I didn't feel like the film needed any.

Most of the budget went to the special effects, so the story feels very confined, which is fine because it wants to dive deeper into character drama than action.

It wasn't as funny as I was expecting, certainly given the cartoonish style poster presented above and there are some truly dark moments involving suicide and rape, but the film managed to slide into this realm of its own.

Very few films manage to capture that feeling and this film did it wonderfully.

I had come to know this movie as the Hillbilly rape-revenge flick but consider my surprise when I find out this was more of a survival film fighting the elements of mother nature.

I can see why the film has somewhat of a cult status though as the film falls into the guilty pleasure category pretty quickly.

That's a lot to tackle and when you try to cram it into a film you've got yourself a film that doesn't know how to balance itself.