The Ruh- Roh Diaries: Movie Review

My thoughts exactly...

SPOILER ALERT

That is if you can even call it that. Why? Because I can't even begin to fathom what the plot of the movie was in order to spoil it.

How bad is this movie? I began writing this review weeks ago and am only know finishing it. THAT is how bad it is. It's not even on my priority list of getting things done... Lets start from the beginning shall we.

Johnny Depp plays the lovable drunken American reporter, Paul Kemp, trying to make it in Puerto Rico working for a newspaper back in the times of real journalism: the 60's; or is it the 50's? Ah it doesn't matter much, knowing the year will do little to make sense of the movie. Anyways, the movie begins with an inebriated Depp awakening in a hotel trashed from the night before. That is probably the best part of the movie. After that it just one rambling scene after another. Character after character is introduced to the viewer with no specific purpose or real explanation; and though the movie touches on the racial inequalities of Puerto Rico during that time and the sexy adventures of Kemp and HARVEY DENT's (I'm sorry, I just love Aaron Eckhart in Batman) bombshell of a fiancee, the movie still finds a way to drag. There were definitely parts that could have been cut out.

 For reasons unknown, Kemp becomes suddenly filled with dedication for the newspaper he's working for when word of its dismantling gets out. Which does little to save it. A cock fight or two later, to gain money to print one last paper, does little since all the machinery is taken from the premises. Oh by the way, that's the end of the movie. Sure there is a little 'what happened to Kemp after' caption that followed...but that could have been played in the beginning to save me 2 hours of my life.

Rum Diary was quite dreadful. I really hope this was just a terrible Hollywood attempt at a really good read. Because Hunter Thompson's work is far from being flattered in this film (well look at that, unintentional alliteration).