Review: “The Rum Diary”
Writer/director Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary is much like a Caribbean vacation: a carefree getaway filled with significant rum consumption. However the film, which is based on Hunter S. Thompson’s novel by the same name, takes this relaxed attitude to the extreme, with a story that drifts along aimlessly like a rudderless boat.
You’re probably not surprised or even dissuaded if you’ve seen other drug addled Thompson adventures like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Where the Buffalo Roam. But since The Rum Diary was written before these yarns, when Thompson wrote for a Puerto Rican newspaper in his youth, it sets slightly more serious expectations for a cohesive tale.