American journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1960s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there.
Let me just say up front that Giovanni Ribisi was the shining star of this film. He is often the highlight of those films he appears in, and it is a shame that people seem to know him by face but not by name -- this guy is a Hollywood treasure.
Beyond that, the film has a great cast (Depp, Heard, Jenkins) and that can make anything seem good. Some scenes were indeed quite good (the tongue scene, riding the destroyed car). Overall it seemed like the movie was lacking something though... not sure what, but something.
Let me just say up front that Giovanni Ribisi was the shining star of this film. He is often the highlight of those films he appears in, and it is a shame that people seem to know him by face but not by name -- this guy is a Hollywood treasure.
Beyond that, the film has a great cast (Depp, Heard, Jenkins) and that can make anything seem good. Some scenes were indeed quite good (the tongue scene, riding the destroyed car). Overall it seemed like the movie was lacking something though... not sure what, but something.