Gonzo

I saw this movie last week. Serendipitously, as I didn’t know it was coming out until the day before it opened and I am currently finishing “Hell’s Angels.” Overall the movie is pretty good, although plagued by “Unsolved Mysteries”-style dramatic re-enactments. There are a lot of video interviews and photographs with Thompson and the best part is the last half hour during which they touch on the author’s suicide and self-planned memorial service, which looked pretty great. If you’ve read all of his books you won’t learn anything new but the value of the movie is hearing from Thompson the author as opposed to Thompson the character (Raoul Duke).