Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
A druggie journalist and his advocate travel to LA from Las Vegas on a drug spree because they are frantically searching for the “American Dream”. They are supposedly there for news coverage and end up covering a convention regarding the misuse of drugs.
15 May 1952, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 July 1929, Galveston, Texas, USA
20 December 1943, Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
18 July 1937, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
18 August 1964, Rye Brook, New York, USA
26 June 1952, USA
November 24, 2014
Unless viewed through the prism of psychedelic habituates, it is unlikely audiences will find much to savour in Gilliam's picture.May 02, 2012
A peculiar and oddly haunting achievement.March 26, 2009
Pic serves up a sensory overload without any compensatory reflection on the outlandish and irresponsible behavior on view.May 02, 2012
The film is intensely pretentious, far too clever for its own good.June 18, 2002
It's really a series of sketches on one theme.September 07, 2011
(Gilliam's) vision is too reflexively comic to evoke the shadows of dread in Thompson's writing.January 01, 2000
If you encountered characters like this on an elevator, you'd push a button and get off at the next floor. Here the elevator is trapped between floors for 128 minutes.January 26, 2006
A film of brilliant moments, but sadly less coherent - and, on senses, rather less personal - than most of Gilliam's work.July 26, 2012
One of Terry Gilliam's worst films (almost unwatchable)May 02, 2012
It's certainly distinctive, looking at times like Richard Lester put through a postmodernist blender.May 02, 2012
Bizarre, unpredictable yet strangely alluring.