The Rum Diary, written and directed by Bruce Robinson, sees Kemp (Johnny Depp), a journalist who takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico in the 1950's but has a hard time balancing work with pleasure as he soon finds out this place is paradise, especially if you like the odd drink or two. But when Kemp falls for beautiful Chenault (Amber Heard), things become a little more complicated as she is with one of the most powerful figures in Puerto Rico, Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart). With this in mind Kemp takes it upon himself to expose Sanderson for what he really is.
After Pirates of the Caribbean people tend to associate Johnny Depp with copious amounts of rum, this film seems to play to that. The Rum Diary is based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson and looks to be a wildly entertaining big screen adaptation. With Depp being his usual entertaining and diverse self it is little wonder why he is one of the biggest actors around at the moment, and as we have all seen, he plays a rather good drunk. There is also something, which I cant seem to out my finger on, which allows him to fit in perfectly with this kind of time era. His performance in Public Enemies which was set in the 1930's was brilliant and almost seemed effortless, so we should expect no different from this film.
Aaron Eckhart is definitely an actor to watch, and more and more seems to be assuming the role of villain what with this role and Two-Face from The Dark Knight which he played wonderfully. I don't know what it is about Aaron but he seems to fit the role of rich, smug bad guy who deems himself untouchable, which is exactly the kind of role this will be. Aaron has a reported five more films in the works at the moment, so as you can see this actor is just going from strength to strength.I am expecting his usual great performance as Sanderson in this film and will be disappointed if we get anything less, which I very much doubt.
This would appear to be director Bruce Robinson's come back movie as we have not heard from him in quite some time. He has an extensive acting career behind him and has written for the big screen on more than one occasion, his most famous being The Killing Fields in 1984. He is now back and having written and directed the film, this is his chance to really show the world of film what he can do and after seeing some footage from this film I have every confidence in him, it looks fantastic.
The Rum Dairy is out in cinemas everywhere October 28.
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