An average movie

Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick. I mean, even though I definitely enjoyed ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, I always had some mixed feelings about this movie. Furthermore, even though Johnny Depp is right now the most popular actor from Hollywood, I didn’t like much his recent work and is slowly but surely becoming one of the most overrated actors at work nowadays. Anyway, eventually, I thought this movie was rather disappointing. I mean, it was not bad at all but I could have been so much better than this. Above all, I thought the tone was just wrong. Indeed, even though we are supposed to be dealing with some major alcoholists, I thought that the whole thing was terribly sober. Of course, it shouldn’t be too similar to ‘ Fear and Loathing…’ but there should have been a little more mayhem and it should have been a more messy. It is like the directing, it was rather decent with some nice shots and an interesting use of colors but that was exactly the problem. The whole thing looked just way too neat and clean. Furthermore, except for Kemp , none of the other characters were properly developed, they remained really sketchy and you never got the change to know them a little bit. Concerning Kemp, I must admit that Johnny Depp gave a solid performance but, still, I wasn’t really sure what to make of his character. Was he a loser alcoholic ? A great idealistic writer ? A wasted half crazy talent? At the end, you have a text explaining that he got back to New York, married the girl and became a famous writer… While watching this, I thought ‘ You gotta to be kidding me…’. It was really unbelievable… Eventually, I never felt much excitement about Kemp’ s adventures in Puerto Rico and I honestly never felt that he himself was having a good time either. To conclude, I think there was there somewhere a pretty good flick but the end-result was rather disappointing. Still, if you are fan of Johnny Depp, I still believe it is worth a look though.

6/10