(Movie Review) The Rum Diary (2011)

You go into a movie with Johnny Depp in it expecting to be WOWed by Johnny Depp....and then you realize that Giovanni Ribisi is in it and you stop looking foward to seeing the Depp parts. The best way to describe Ribisi as an actor is that if you saw Brad Pitt juggling a stack of knives, Giovanni Ribisi is the guy that would take them, set then on fire, and juggle them blindfolded. He is that good, and that much better than most of the "stars" of the films that he is in.

Storyline: American journalist Paul Kemp (Depp_ takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1950s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there. - From IMDB

Thoughts: Everyone in great in the film. Depp is his normal level of awesome, Eckhart is entertaining and loathsome all at the same time, but Ribisi is, hands down, the best performer in the film. What the man can do with a character is amazing. You should check this movie out....if just to see him let go a bit.