It’s a film for the young and those who think like them. That’s a great thing.

| Jul 6, 2024

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a cautionary tale, yet despite everyone’s best efforts, it also now feels like a nostalgic blast for those of us whose wild days are in the rearview.

| Jun 17, 2024

Depp and Del Toro deliver deliciously overstuffed ham-sandwich performances that more than compensate for the film's fractured narrative. But the real star here is director Gilliam.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2023

...catapulted by Depp and co-star Benecio del Toro along with an impressive mix of players in bit parts-including the voice of Debbie Reynolds...

| Aug 11, 2021

All you will learn is that the irksome excesses of early 1970s living were left behind for a very good reason. They just weren't that much fun at all.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 11, 2020

The flaccid film is a goon-show version of Thompson's commentary on the craziness of the American Dream.

| May 22, 2019

The one stand-out is Johnny Depp, who brings Hunter S Thompson to bald-headed, pigeon-toed life.

| Mar 29, 2019

Unless viewed through the prism of psychedelic habituates, it is unlikely audiences will find much to savour in Gilliam's picture.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Nov 24, 2014

One of Terry Gilliam's worst films (almost unwatchable)

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 26, 2012

A peculiar and oddly haunting achievement.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 2, 2012

It's certainly distinctive, looking at times like Richard Lester put through a postmodernist blender.

| May 2, 2012

Bizarre, unpredictable yet strangely alluring.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 2, 2012

The film is intensely pretentious, far too clever for its own good.

| May 2, 2012

It's larger-than life, wild, dizzy, colourful and vulgar, and goes round in circles - for a very long time.

| May 2, 2012

The fear is comical; the loathing almost nonexistent.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 31, 2011

(Gilliam's) vision is too reflexively comic to evoke the shadows of dread in Thompson's writing.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2011

Certainly uneven at times, but Terry Gilliam's surreal mood piece paints a vivid, splashy picture of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 16, 2011

A beautiful cinematic showcase for Thompson at the peak of his writing skills.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 16, 2011

It may start off as a lighthearted, excess-filled, party-road-trip movie, but Depp is reigned in a little towards the end as his character (a stand-in for Thompson) poetically bemoans the sad failure of the late-60s ideals and values.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 1, 2011

More headache than head trip.

| Apr 2, 2009