Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) movie poster

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

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ThumbScore
👍 86%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 46%
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Runtime
1h 58m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.2/10 (4,954 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
51%
Metacritic
41

Cast

Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke · 75% avg
Benicio del Toro as Dr. Gonzo · 72% avg
Tobey Maguire as Hitchhiker · 73% avg
Michael Lee Gogin as Uniformed Dwarf
Larry Cedar as Car Rental Agent - Los Angeles · 65% avg
Brian Le Baron as Parking Attendant
Katherine Helmond as Desk Clerk at Mint Hotel · 77% avg
Michael Warwick as Bell Boy

Is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas good?

Yes. 86% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 46%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#204 / 1446 · Adventure
Rank in its year
#23 / 116 · 1998
Rank among its director's films
#2 / 12 · Terry Gilliam

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 American psychedelic road comedy directed by Terry Gilliam, based on Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel. Johnny Depp stars as Raoul Duke, a barely fictionalized Thompson, and Benicio del Toro as his attorney Dr.

Gonzo, who load a red convertible with a suitcase full of drugs — including mescaline, acid, cocaine, amyl nitrate, and ether — and drive to Las Vegas ostensibly to cover a motorcycle race but actually to pursue the American Dream through a haze of pharmaceutically induced hallucination. Terry Gilliam's direction transformed Thompson's already hallucinatory prose into a visual onslaught of warping carpets, melting faces, lizard-people in casino lounges, and adrenochrome nightmares that made the audience share Duke's chemically altered perception. Johnny Depp, who lived with Thompson for months and adopted his mannerisms with obsessive precision, delivered a performance that was simultaneously comic and disturbing.

Fear and Loathing earned $10 million on a $18 million budget but became a massive cult classic.

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