Matcollis
This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
Grimossfer
Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
godleyfisher
Read the book, do not, I repeat, do not watch this film. This is my first review on IMDb, I'm not a filmy kind of being... my favourite films are Harold and Maud and On Golden Pond. The only thing the book and film have in common is that the book made me want to drink rum for breakfast and the film just drove me to drink! The film should not carry the same name as the book. Positives about the film... Depp's sunglasses, the fiat 500, that's it - two. 'The minimum length for reviews is 10 lines'... goodness without padding a review of this film is impossible. Conclusion: please read the book, do not waste £2.59 on eBay for the DVD (free postage).
FilmBuff1994
The Rum Diary is a decent movie with a good storyline and a talented cast. The films plot is all over the place and it is certainly hard to follow at times, the characters are quite strange and sadly not likable enough for me to have any bit of care for them. The cast is very good and Johnny Depp certainly delivers a great performance, like he always does, but they simply weren't enough to help this movie become anything memorable or really worth watching. It had a lot of potential, but the Rum Diary mostly let me down and because of that I can only recommend it if you ever see it on television and have some time to kill. An author moves to Puerto Rico hoping to develop a more commercial writing style, but he instead gets mixed up in local politics. Best Performance: Johnny Depp
scentofrain
Hard to review a movie like this, because I can't even say what's the main subject in it. But i enjoyed this movie. I think that most of the women out there wont find it interesting or entertaining and rather rate it boring, but if you are a man in a lazy mood and you like: drinking, smoking, old San Juan and Puerto Rico, getting in trouble and at least once you have been at the wrong place at the wrong time, then you will be able to understand the funny pats of itMix these 4 - red, white, blue and gold - and now you've got the color of raw home made rum.beauty with Red lips, wearing Red dress, riding fullspeed in Red retro car, waking up with Red eye, Red flowers - rosesrich people with White shirts, "El Monstruo" - the White rooster, empty White pages of future novel, White spots in memoryendless Blue sea, everyday Blue sky, old cracked Blue walls, tiny Blue carGolden sunglasses frame, Golden sandy beaches, Golden "spy" telescope, Golden rusty retro motorbike ...and a couple trying to have sex, listening to an old vynil, with Hitler giving a speech...Imagine different combinations with these. But all roads leads to getting drunk with rum.
cineastFGD
This movie can be summed up in one word: boring. There's no story line, no jokes, no drama, no excitement, the dialogues are shale, bordering, to the ridicule. The characters are shallow and predictable, clichés all along. Depp is at his lowest, he seems like bored by himself. I've never seen him acting so lousy, he seems to have totally lost it. As for Amer Heard, the less screen time she gets the better. It's beyond me why she has been cast in the first place. It's obvious her talent lies with another movie genre with a more visual focus and very little dialogues. A most disappointing experience. So spare yourself this disappointment and employ your time with a more useful endeavor. For example reading the book.
