“The Rum Diary,” playing in theaters this week, is entertaining enough for movie goers but falls short of fans’ expectations of accurately or satisfactorily representing the Hunter Thompson novel on which it is based.ĭirected by Bruce Robinson and starring Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart and Amber Heard, the movie’s major redeeming quality is Depp’s acting.ĭepp plays journalist Paul Kemp in “The Rum Diary” just as well as he played Raoul Duke in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” another film based on a Thompson novel under the same name, although both characters are thinly veiled stand-ins for Thompson himself.ĭepp gets the character spot on, which is expected considering he was a close friend of Thompson, spent time living in the writer’s basement to prepare for his role in “Fear and Loathing” and financed Thompson’s elaborate funeral.īesides Depp’s accurate portrayal, the movie veers drastically from the original plotline of the novel, going so far as to completely cut out a main character who played a pivotal role in the central conflict of the story. NovemJohnny Depp stars in the film adaptation of Hunter S.
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