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Load of rubbish!!

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This is just such a fun film to watch. It's very clever and very funny. So while Depp previously and realistically portrayed Hunter S. Thompson in "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" (another cult classic) this was based on an unpublished novel he had written. You can truly see his acting talent shine on display here, let's face it he can sometimes really phone in his performance or sleepwalk through a film. This is a film Depp was passionate about making and it shows. Good stuff.

Rum Diary (2011): Dir: Bruce Robinson / Cast: Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Amber Heard, Giovanni Ribisi: Based on Hunter S. Thompson's first book, here we have career seen through the lens of alcohol and narcotics. Johnny Depp play journalist Paul Kemp who awakens in Puerto Rico to start a job with a failing magazine. At first he is reduced to stories regarding overweight tourists at bowling alleys but before long he is addressed to draw favor for a scheme involving the building of a hotel on an island off Puerto Rico. This is Depp's second performance as Thompson after portraying him as Raoul Duke in the underrated Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Here he is drawn out on alcohol where humour plays a part, but he grows suspicious when the poor are degraded and the rich only dominate. Arron Eckhart plays Hal Sanderson, a crooked businessman who seeks Kemp's services. He mistreats the poor but bails Kemp and Sale out when the two land in court after erupting a mob at a restaurant. Michael Rispoli steals his moments as magazine photographer Sale who allows Kemp shelter in his broken down residence. Sale is involved in cock fighting for cash and his push start vehicle becomes one massive sight joke. Giovanni Ribisi also surfaces as a lowlife reporter strutting around dressed in rags. The big disappointment is Amber Heard as Sanderson's girlfriend Chenault who is basically a romantic tease for Kemp, and her behavior renders her less than sympathetic. It is another bizarre observation through the eyes and liquor glass of the great writer himself. Score: 8 ½ / 10

The Rum Diary is a decent movie with a good storyline and a talented cast. The films plot is all over the place and it is certainly hard to follow at times, the characters are quite strange and sadly not likable enough for me to have any bit of care for them. The cast is very good and Johnny Depp certainly delivers a great performance, like he always does, but they simply weren't enough to help this movie become anything memorable or really worth watching. It had a lot of potential, but the Rum Diary mostly let me down and because of that I can only recommend it if you ever see it on television and have some time to kill. An author moves to Puerto Rico hoping to develop a more commercial writing style, but he instead gets mixed up in local politics. Best Performance: Johnny Depp

Hard to review a movie like this, because I can't even say what's the main subject in it. But i enjoyed this movie. I think that most of the women out there wont find it interesting or entertaining and rather rate it boring, but if you are a man in a lazy mood and you like: drinking, smoking, old San Juan and Puerto Rico, getting in trouble and at least once you have been at the wrong place at the wrong time, then you will be able to understand the funny pats of itMix these 4 - red, white, blue and gold - and now you've got the color of raw home made rum.beauty with Red lips, wearing Red dress, riding fullspeed in Red retro car, waking up with Red eye, Red flowers - rosesrich people with White shirts, "El Monstruo" - the White rooster, empty White pages of future novel, White spots in memoryendless Blue sea, everyday Blue sky, old cracked Blue walls, tiny Blue carGolden sunglasses frame, Golden sandy beaches, Golden "spy" telescope, Golden rusty retro motorbike ...and a couple trying to have sex, listening to an old vynil, with Hitler giving a speech...Imagine different combinations with these. But all roads leads to getting drunk with rum.