Pretty Good

Awesome Movie

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Ben Kalmen (Michael Douglas) is divorced from Nancy (Susan Sarandon). He is loved by daughter Susan (Jenna Fischer) despite his womanizing and the mess from his corrupt car dealership empire. He had come close to prison for fraud. He is trying to rehabilitate his reputation and buy a dealership with the help of his connected girlfriend Jordon Karsch (Mary-Louise Parker). He takes her daughter Allyson (Imogen Poots) for a college interview at his alta-mater and ends up sleeping with her. He befriends awkward college student Daniel Cheston (Jesse Eisenberg) and reconnects with Jimmy Merino (Danny DeVito) who owns the family deli.The central performance is great. Ben is not sympathetic but Douglas infuses him with humanity. He's a terribly flawed and damaged character. The drawback is the constant turnover of character which doubles back. It would have been more effective staying with the mentorship with Eisenberg or the perverted relationship with the mother and daughter. Doubling back does feel awkwardly manufactured. There is a possibility that he's going back for Allyson but that's not the case. It's just weird although reconnecting with Daniel does give fruit to a good turn.

The story of this movie is only an excuse to introduce sexual addiction where only one individual have sexuality and women appears to pander its sexual desires as main funny puppets. Bad way to describe persons and respectful between persons. So what is the theme on this movie: there is not. No values, no relationship, no arguments, no dialog, no plot. Story is a way to make porn without make porn. Pathetic individual is only a means to insinuate perversions: less$$$=+sexual women made as bitches. The ability of director is to make this mystification: the no-story is an excuse to make a porn movie. A classic scam movie as only Hollywood can promote perversions in its classic way.

Michael Douglas gives his best performance in nearly ten years as Ben, a disgraced car salesman in the underrated dramedy, Soliatary man. I think Solitary many is up there with the years best movies. Douglas gives his best performance since the indie comedy, Wonder boys ( loved that movie too).Douglas is Ben, a car salesman with an uneven life. His life slowly crumbles after he goes with his girlfriend's(Mary Louise Parker) daughter to Boston. There, they sleep together. From then on is many unfortunate things after another. Slowly ruining his relationship with his daughter ( strongly acted by Jenna Fischer).The acting here is all very well done. Especially from Douglas and Fischer. Douglas plays a likable, but yet unlikable playboy. My interest in this film kept gaining, and gaining, and gaining. I laughed out loud many times in this movie.Overall, I would say that this is one of the years best movies. I feel that this is a very overlooked film. Douglas definitely deserved some recognition for his performance here, and so should Fischer. I think that I would call it one of the years best movies. The film is now out on DVD, and I think you should look for it. See it now. I really liked this film.A-

Hollywood, like the lead character in this movie deserves Zero viewers. Why pay hard earned money to watch a corrupt individual's despicable actions? From the onset of the movie it is clear the man is a womanizer, he shows more attention to a women in the diner that he's attending with his ex-wife and son, than he does to his flesh and blood son. I quickly alerted my wife, "the man is a womanizer". And the movie goes on to explicitly show how low of character the lead is, in a borderline pornographic way. The act that is the climax of the movie is despicable. I am highly disappointed with the movie "Solitary Man" -- it highlights the worst of human nature and it saddens me that millions of dollars were spent that could have influenced society in a positive way, but instead lower the bar to the savage level.