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Factotum   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews   Critics Reviews User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   The Critics: B 12 reviews Start Rating Movies Now! Sign In or sign up Yahoo! Users: C+ 421 ratings  User Reviews (32 reviews) Write your own review Sort by:  Most HelpfulMost RecentHighest GradeLowest Grade Previous   |  1-10 of 32  |   Next   Overall Grade: A+ Story: A Acting: A+ Direction: A+ Visuals: A- Great adaption from an even greater novel by joe (movies profile) (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... Full Review Overall Grade: F Story: F Acting: D Direction: D Visuals: D Sorry Charlie! by Ralph (movies profile) (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... Full Review Overall Grade: B+ Story: B+ Acting: A+ Direction: B+ Visuals: B+ fabulous! by neicie (movies profile) (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... Full Review Overall Grade: D- Story: C Acting: C- Direction: D Visuals: B Crap by RAfBOy (movies profile) (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... Full Review Overall Grade: A+ Story: A Acting: A Direction: A Visuals: A+ Captured, Moved, Depressingly Haunted As If There. by d (movies profile) (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... Full Review Overall Grade: B- Story: B- Acting: A- Direction: B Visuals: B- When Good Writers Go Bad by F J (movies profile) (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... Full Review Overall Grade: B Story: N/A Acting: N/A Direction: N/A Visuals: N/A 'Factotum' by Mike (movies profile) (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... Full Review Overall Grade: C Story: C Acting: B- Direction: C- Visuals: D+ The PT Cruiser was inappropriate by Casey (movies profile) (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... Full Review Overall Grade: A- Story: A- Acting: B+ Direction: A- Visuals: B+ Philosophy of the drunk, for the drunk by Meme (movies profile) (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... Full Review Overall Grade: F Story: F Acting: F Direction: F Visuals: D Matt Dillion is too pretty by tyrone (movies profile) (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... Full Review Previous   |  1-10 of 32  |   Next