Bruno Irizarry Lazar as Lazar. Enzo Cilenti Digby as Digby. Aaron Lustig Monk as Monk. Karen Austin Mrs. Zimburger as Mrs. Bruce Robinson. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. His volatile editor, Lotterman, assigns him to tourist pieces and horoscopes, but promises more.
Paul rooms with Sala, an aging and equally alcoholic reporter, in a rundown flat. Sanderson, a wealthy entrepreneur, hires Paul to flack for a group of investors who plan to buy an island near the capital and build a resort. Sanderson's girl-friend, the beguiling Chenault, bats her eyes at Paul.
His loyalties face challenges when he and Sala get in trouble with locals, when a Carnival dance enrages Sanderson, and when the paper hits the skids. Is the solution always alcohol? One part outrage. One part justice. Three parts rum. Mix well. Rated R for language, brief drug use and sexuality. Did you know Edit. Trivia Johnny Depp suspended his sobriety for this film in order to experience the effects of liquors depicted.
Goofs When Kemp and Sala experience the effects of the mysterious drug while walking outside by the docks, the lobster in the tank is a Maine lobster large claws , not a Caribbean lobster no claws. Quotes Paul Kemp : Oscar Wilde once said, "Nowadays, people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
User reviews Review. Top review. Booze Induced Reality. I have read the book and this movie holds true to the voice that Thompson writes with - this is what makes the movie works. Depp's role, unsurprisingly, mimics his portrayal of Hunter in Fear and Loathing only with less drugs, not counting alcohol.
The movie can, realistically, be summed up in one "revelation" Depp's character has with a rather unusual counterpart. Recruited by Sanderson to write an article that praises an unsavory deal, Paul must decide if he will use his talents to help Sanderson, or bring him down.
Comedy, Drama. Bruce Robinson. Oct 28, wide. Feb 14, Johnny Depp Paul Kemp. Aaron Eckhart Sanderson. Michael Rispoli Sala. Amber Heard Chenault. Richard Jenkins Lotterman. Giovanni Ribisi Moburg. Amaury Nolasco Segurra. Marshall Bell Donovan. Bill Smitrovich Mr. Julian Holloway Wolsley. Bruno Irizarry Lazar. Enzo Cilenti Digby.
Aaron Lustig Monk. Natalia Rivera Chenault's Friend. Karen Austin Mrs. Bruce Robinson Director. Bruce Robinson Screenwriter. Johnny Depp Producer. Christi Dembrowski Producer. Anthony Rhulen Producer. Robert Kravis Producer. Graham King Producer. Tim Headington Producer. Patrick McCormick Executive Producer. George Tobia Executive Producer. William Shively Executive Producer. Dix Executive Producer. Greg Shapiro Executive Producer. Colin Vaines Executive Producer. Dariusz Wolski Cinematographer.
Chris Seagers Production Design. Carol Littleton Film Editor. Colleen Atwood Costume Designer. Christopher Young Original Music. Denise Chamian Casting. View All Critic Reviews Jul 31, I wasn't expecting a whole lot out of The Rum Diary, I almost dismissed it from the trailer, what I got was a pleasant surprise. The film is flawed in its acting and pacing. The scene where Kemp played by Johnny Depp met Chenault in the lake contained piss poor acting.
I ended up rewinding to see it again, and found it nastily cheesy. The movie was poorly paced, starting very slow and suave, in a Hemingway like setting, and then just chopping through the action scenes.
Amber Heard looked stunning as Chenault, no wonder Kemp fell in love with her. This film does have tremendous humor. The tongue scene when they're under the influence of eye drops had me laughing for a couple minutes. The film has themes of alcoholism I guess that obvious from the title , and race division. I'd like to read Hunter S. Thompson's book, as this seems it'd would work even better if it was read.
The only thing I know about Thompson is that he also wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and he had an awesome funeral. Anyways this is a solid introduction to Bruce Robinson. Daniel D Super Reviewer. Jul 29, Paul Kemp: Why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without her. One part justice. Three parts rum. The humor is fast and witty. The man Paul is replacing was "artistic" and "raped to death" by sailors. Paul Kemp is a Hunter S. Thompson clone.
He was hired because the editor likes his style of writing. He is placed in charge of writing horoscopes, something he makes up. He describes the obese Yankee tourists as "great whites" the most deadly creature known to man.
They are afraid to venture outside of their hotel, spending their days bowling, gambling, and duty free shopping. The more you spend, the more you save. His writings tend to be cynical. Aaron needs a writer PR man with new eyes, and Paul sets his bloodshot eyes on Amber, a woman who considers clothes optional.
There is also criticism of today's conservatives as Paul remarks about Nixon, "Some day some filthy hoar-beast will make him look like a liberal.
A local proclaims, "This country was founded on genocide and slavery In the film, capitalism is destroying Puerto Rico, creating a war of haves vs. A rich man claims, "Liberals are college educated communists with Negro thoughts. The movie takes a leftist look at the world as it plays out in the microcosm of Puerto Rico. Paul is caught between the two worlds and must make a choice. The movie is not all political. Just as you think Paul has reached bottom, he discovers "a drug so powerful that the FBI gives it to communists.
Good acting, good script, funny and very entertaining. Staunch conservatives might be critical of the leftist views contained in this Hollywood film. A must view for Hunter S. Thompson fans. F-bomb, excessive drinking, drug use. Was that Amber topless is a dimly lit love scene?
While this is again based on Hunter S. Thompson a novel of his , do not expect this to be as mad as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". Quite the opposite is the case. This movie is pretty straight forward, when it comes to story telling and characters. Madness ensues from time to time, but it's not the main factor of the movie.
Johnny Depp is on form, though you or at least I might miss his OTT performance from the already mentioned other movie.
You have a lot of good actors in this and it feels mostly right, but there is something missing here, to make it truly outstanding. An alcoholic with ethics - who would have thought? He doesn't know it yet, but he's being recruited to write flattering stories for conniving developers who want to change the pristine landscape of an unnamed nearby island into a tourist trap with a magnificent hotel.
Teaming with an equally sobriety-free photographer Michael Rispoli , the pair form an unusual alliance with yet another outcast from society named Moburg. I don't think I've seen Giovanni Ribisi in a role I haven't liked, and he plays up the degenerate aspect of his character to the hilt. What it all leads to is a take down of Hal Sanderson's Aaron Eckhart latest scheme for scoring millions, while losing his fiancee Chenault Amber Heard to the often bewildered Kemp. I got a kick out of the scene with the hallucinatory eye drops, though I thought more could have been done with it.
As for the sequin studded tortoise at Sanderson's - it could have been diamonds or zirconium, depending on how much rum you've consumed. American journalist Paul Kemp Johnny Depp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there. Let me just say up front that Giovanni Ribisi was the shining star of this film.
He is often the highlight of those films he appears in, and it is a shame that people seem to know him by face but not by name -- this guy is a Hollywood treasure. Beyond that, the film has a great cast Depp, Heard, Jenkins and that can make anything seem good. Some scenes were indeed quite good the tongue scene, riding the destroyed car.
Overall it seemed like the movie was lacking something though TxMike 20 May For me the backstory was even more interesting than the movie. In his younger days Thompson wrote the manuscript for "Rum Diary" but it had been left unfinished and unpublished. In more recent years Depp discovered it in Thompson's basement among other things and through a collaborative effort with others trimmed, polished and published the book. Now it is this movie, a very interesting one.
It is set in and Johnny Depp as Kemp is a struggling author who goes to Puerto Rico for a newspaper job. He gets hired then finds out he was the only applicant. The newspaper wasn't doing that well and the office morale wasn't particularly high. As Kemp gets around he gets into the social circle of Aaron Eckhart as Sanderson, a wealthy man with a pretty young girlfriend.
Kemp is smitten with the girl, and tolerates Sanderson. But Sanderson and his associates are putting together a land deal, to build hotels and a resort, not totally above-board. They hire Kemp as a writer who can help them make their case look favorable. We never really get into the real estate deal, it just provides the reason for the scenes that come after.
Kemp's sidekick is Michael Rispoli as news photographer Sala. Very pretty Amber Heard, who looks a lot like Scarlett Johansson but prettier and more refined is Sanderson's girlfriend, Chenault. Her face was very familiar as I saw her this season on the now cancelled TV series "Playboy Club" as one of the bunnies. She is a good enough actress and with her looks I think we will be seeing her in more roles.
Befitting the title there is a lot of rum-drinking in the movie, plus some cock-fighting, nude swimming, and sailing. While it is not autobiographical the fictional Kemp is certainly quite close to the author's own character. Depp is of course quite good.
The critic Ebert has a very fair and accurate review. Quinoa 12 November The Rum Diary - as "straight-forward" a Hunter S. Thompson adaptation as we're ever likely to see - which means it's damn good, and damn understands what the goddamn Hunter S. Thompson was getting at with his work as a whole, even as this is a sort of prequel to his life and work in general see for example the introduction to LSD and the disgust at Richard Nixon in the Presidential debates on TV.
Obviously it will attract that group of fans as, frankly, I'm one of them. I can report that this is a film that gives a lot of awesome respect for Thomspon's work having, ironically, not read this book but most of his others it seems to capture a lot of his thematic concerns in general well enough too , and makes up its own risks as it goes along. It is, again I should stress, a more conventionally shot picture, shot-reverse-shot, not too much crazy lighting, only one very noticeably deranged special effect, which makes up one of the uproarious moments of the picture hint: They give it to Communists!
And yet there's some daring here and there, and some of my favorite moments of the year are in this picture. For example, Robinson takes the time amid the plot - which is mostly concerned with Depp's disillusioned journalist covering astrology bullshit at a local paper that's going under while tangled up with a shady businessman played by chin-dimple magnet Aaron Eckhardt - to take his sexy co-stars Depp and Amber Heard in a sexy red corvette on the road.
It's one of those dangerously erotic scenes where it's mostly about how the actors look at one another, and how they look at their bodies, and then the car speed goes up more, and more, and more They screech to a halt, and the shot helicopters away from them into the ocean And the two stars get out and look out at the ocean, feeling what exactly?
It's one of those moments in movies one goes to the movies for. Lastly: Giovanni Ribisi steals his scenes, which is absolutely stunning since I don't think I have come away feeling that in so many years of watching him in films. He comes in much the same way Ralph Brown does in 'Withinail', as a grungy, whacked-out supporting character, but who will leave a damn-BIG impression particularly in this case as he asks for venereal disease examinations in exchange for drugs and plays records of Hitler Poor story telling, and an even poorer plot Gordon 13 March This film is about an alcoholic journalist who takes up a job with a failing newspaper in Puerto Rico.
The first scenes of Johnny Depp in the hotel room and in the job interview are funny and entertaining, but quickly turns downhill and do not recover. It shows unsympathetic characters drinking alcohol non-stop. The pace is slow and simply does not ignite any interest for the viewers. By the middle of the film, I have lost all interest already. The story telling is so poor. The plot is told in an unclear manner.
For example, does Sanderson stop his deal with Sanderson because Kemp brings Sala to the deal? Does Kemp expose the so called property scam because of his integrity, or just for revenge to Sanderson for calling off the deal? The film tries to make Kemp so righteous, but this is not in keeping with the way he acts in the rest of the film. It makes me wonder what exactly the point of this film is. You have Johnny Depp in high quirkiness. A gorgeous woman in Amber Heard. A film devoted to the late journalist Hunter S.
Thompson, who died in The story is set in the s; Paul Kemp Depp is a New York journalist and yet successful novelist that is tired of the humdrum life he is living. Kemp decides to go to Puerto Rico, where he takes a job with a political, but unmotivated rag of a newspaper.
The editor Richard Jenkins , a booze-hound much like Kemp, assigns him the horoscope column and random tourist reports. Paul ends up rooming with an aging reporter, Sala Michael Rispoli ,who is definitely edging the end of his career.
It doesn't take long for the shaky business deal to spoil and the newspaper to hit the skids. Kemp leaves Puerto Rico a more experienced man. There is some awesome scenery, but a story line that won't appeal to all. Right before you start giving up on this movie Accusatory Giblet tedg 2 June I have no idea whether powerful art requires pain in the creator.
I suspect not. But it is an unhappy fact that the actors that I appreciate must be seriously incomplete when not acting. Sean Penn and Robert Downey are the most interesting living male actors in my universe, but Depp comes close.
We all need a story to live in, to come home to and what fascinates is how focused these stories seem to be. But then Thompson himself was reaching for something, someone beyond. So when Depp strives to be in the smell of the Hunter, it is the smell being hunted — scents all the way down.
For a very long time, Depp has publicly admired Thompson and performed what rituals a powerful actor can. Among them is this film, which I come to as something in between reading an interview wherein Depp presents his target narrative and a film intended to have agency as an independent story.
As a standalone film, it is an utter failure — excepting a few lines and fewer images. The intended mood is never attained. Of all of Gilliam's failures, the one success he had was the ability to create the man's trace or order through fog in 'Fear and Loathing'. But I will still recommend this, because the man openly carries his persona to his successful roles. Neither we nor he know just what that persona really is.
But we do know what he wants it to be. Winona is long forgotten. Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching. LeonLouisRicci 22 February
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