DVD Review
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by David Ng
Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a deliberately incoherent evocation of the counterculture's self-destruction. Naturally, any description of the movie will fail to capture its hyperbolic mania, but it's fair to say that at its most delirious, the movie is an acid-headed gate-crashing party turned paranoid all-night bacchanal. At its most reflective, the movie is a reptilian jaunt through the gaudy fringes of diseased Americana circa 1971.