An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.
This adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's cult classic is more of a pointless romp in the director's typical 'magical' style, it's a bit like an A version of Roger Corman's The Trip, but without the surreal touch.
Halliwell (no star): "A surreal trip into bad drugs makes for a queasy film that is unlikely to attain the cult status of the original book."
Maltin BOMB: "Excruciatin adaptation...The film, however, is simply one monotonous, painfully long drug trip - replete with close-ups of vomit and swooping camera movements at any and every opportunity. Perhaps Thompson diehards will find some value here; others beware."
[Nota Bene: The movie was a long-running success at my cinema.]
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