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Overall Grade:
A+
Story:
A
Acting:
A+
Direction:
A+
Visuals:
A-
Great adaption from an even greater novel
by joe (
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(Aug 24, 2007)
8 of 10 people found this review helpful
I enjoyed this film, and am glad that quality adaptions from the Buk's novels are finally being made. This film is no substitute for reading the book (film adaptions fro...
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Overall Grade:
F
Story:
F
Acting:
D
Direction:
D
Visuals:
D
Sorry Charlie!
by Ralph (
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(Oct 28, 2007)
6 of 8 people found this review helpful
Put me to sleep. Boring. Trying to be true to the book is one thing but making a bad movie is another. The story had no purpose. We never learn who Chinaski really is or...
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Overall Grade:
B+
Story:
B+
Acting:
A+
Direction:
B+
Visuals:
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fabulous!
by neicie (
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(Sep 7, 2006)
5 of 7 people found this review helpful
i saw this at the seattle film festivle and was sooooooo impressed with matt dillon-and i have rarely been impressed by him! it was a very interesting character-driven s...
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Overall Grade:
D-
Story:
C
Acting:
C-
Direction:
D
Visuals:
B
Crap
by RAfBOy (
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(Sep 7, 2006)
3 of 4 people found this review helpful
Absolutely lacking the heart and grit of Bukowski. Dillon failed to pull off a convincing Chinaski (a face full of stubble and a low and slow delivery just doesn't cut it...
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Overall Grade:
A+
Story:
A
Acting:
A
Direction:
A
Visuals:
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Captured, Moved, Depressingly Haunted As If There.
by d (
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(Mar 25, 2008)
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
I was in my theater seat today feeling honored to be lost up there on the screen floating with Hank in and out of his personal darkness, skid row hopelessness, writer's m...
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Overall Grade:
B-
Story:
B-
Acting:
A-
Direction:
B
Visuals:
B-
When Good Writers Go Bad
by F J (
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(Mar 11, 2008)
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Factotum is able to do something that Leaving Las Vegas couldn't (or wouldn't) and that is give us something to laugh about in the middle of a real human mess. Factotum...
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Overall Grade:
B
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N/A
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'Factotum'
by Mike (
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(Mar 11, 2008)
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Factotum" is so endearingly off-putting because it is a movie at odds with itself. Although it is the story of a miserable, violent alcoholic barely surviving in a cruel...
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Overall Grade:
C
Story:
C
Acting:
B-
Direction:
C-
Visuals:
D+
The PT Cruiser was inappropriate
by Casey (
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(Sep 8, 2006)
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
If you have never read any Bukowski I think this movie would be difficult to understand. Set in modern day it is difficult to accept some of the dialogue as well as the r...
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Overall Grade:
A-
Story:
A-
Acting:
B+
Direction:
A-
Visuals:
B+
Philosophy of the drunk, for the drunk
by Meme (
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(Mar 24, 2008)
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Dillon plays it through as a droll, pulls-no-punches drunk who's literary Muse is addled by alchohol, tobacco and sex. Wandering the dark underbelly of losers,boozers and...
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Overall Grade:
F
Story:
F
Acting:
F
Direction:
F
Visuals:
D
Matt Dillion is too pretty
by tyrone (
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(Sep 9, 2006)
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Matt dillion is too pretty to play a ugly, depressed drunk. He can't even act drunk. The story was boring, bukowski's alter ego henry was a mean sob and this is not captu...
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