The sets are so elaborate, one could never take in all the scenery from any number of viewings without slowing it down and watching very closely. First of all, this movie literally glows with Gilliam's eye for detail that he has consistently displayed throughout his career. Thompson's generation-defining book of the same name - it stays very faithful to the events in the book. It is a brilliant adaptation of Hunter S. Maybe my mind works very much like director Terry Gilliam's (I loved 'Brazil' and '12 Monkeys'), but the last thing I would do to this movie is deride it. I have read countless reviews of this movie that have derided it for everything from glorifying drugs to being unchristian to being boring.
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