Johny Depp at his best!. Review on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Movie

I missed ''Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas'' during its theatrical run. Fortunately, thanks to the internet I’ve finally been able to see this exceptional film. Since this is a Terry Gilliam film, I was expecting a film that was different from the standard mold, and I was not disappointed. Based on Hunter S. Thompson’s novel of the same name, the film presents us with a freakish, frantic couple: the journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and his attorney Dr. Gonzo ( Benicio Del Toro). Within the first few seconds as soon as the off-screen voice-over of Johnny Depp starts recollecting the events of the past day. Within minutes, it is clear that ''Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas'' is one of the most radical, subversive, and traumatic films ever made about two hippies who are out of their minds!!! Their main objective in Las Vegas is to cover the events of the ''Mint 400'', a local off-road motorcycle race in the desert, but the tour quickly turns into a series of horror trips when both of them have bad trips and frightening flashbacks. It seems as if any drug will do to get them high, and we watch the two go from pot and mescaline to cocaine, LSD, to ether and worse. The performance of Johnny Depp as Duke is appalling. Depp and Del Toro personify a duo of schizoid, brain-numbed drugsters, characterization that far exceeds what you may have seen on screen before. They rapidly build tension and explode in uncontrollable spastic laughter, mumbling of spaced-out visions of aliens from Mars. Reading the book gives you a great appreciation for how cool Hunter S. Thompson was. His remarks are consistently hilarious and he could be just as funny talking about sports, politics as he was when talking about his psychedelic episodes.