content: I didn't think it possible but Terry Gilliam has brought "Fear and Loathing" to the screen. I had enjoyed the wise-cracking Bill Murray in "Where the Buffalo Roam" but that film stretched far and wide and went no where. Here, Gilliam is in complete control, which is no small fete given the character of the subject. Johnny Depp makes a good effort but Benicio Del Toro steals the show. He captures the crazy Samoan in all his kinetic glory. The scenes build as effortly on each other as they do in the book. Gilliam sticks very closely to the text, and Thompson seems to have given the film his seal of approval in the pivotal flashback scene. The swirling carpet patterns and other metamorphoses are fantastic, and show that Gilliam is the master of bringing psychedelic visions to the big screen. This is one you have to see over and over again.