The Rum Diary: Only for Die-Hard Depp Fans

Posted on Nov 15, 2011

It sounded good on paper, Johnny Depp playing a fictional Hunter S. Thompson in his pre-gonzo formative years in an adaptation of a Thompson novel set in early 1960s Puerto Rico.   Depp is no stranger to this territory, having played the late journalist in 1998 in another filmic adaptation of one of his iconic books, “Fear and Loathing inLas Vegas.”   But it’s the execution that fails, with the exception of Depp’s...