seraphinite This movie has some good lines, but watching Dillon's less-than-masterful Rourke impersonation just left me wanting to see the original. I like Marisa Tomei but she's no Faye Dunaway.Also, in my opinion, the number one movie rule is to make the lead character someone you care about. You might not LOVE the character, but you should care what happens to him. This is achieved in Barfly with the hilarious running gag about the fights with Eddie the bartender. The main fight in Factotum is when, completely unprovoked, he stalks up to the Lily Taylor character in a bar, punches her to the floor and calls her a whore.The whole thing just didn't work. Again, some great lines -- some laugh-out-loud funny -- but as a movie overall it's a fail. Mediocre attempt at reinventing something that was brilliant, and you can't get past that. Next? Let's remake Breakfast at Tiffany's with Kate Hudson.

pc95 Factotum as a movie is a quirk, it offers a twisted glib outlook on life. It's a bit more of a drama than a comedy and it works pretty well although pacing is slow. Matt Dillon as the lead character Chinaski does a great job of rolling along with alcohol, women, and menial employments. At center is his mocking jeering narration of work and life and his character's troubles with stabilizing his routines. He doesn't care, and this makes for quite a few entertaining scenes to say the least....perhaps ones that are pathetic in a real sense of the word. This is not about breaking out of life's problems but a flowing detailed look at the how these problems are manifested and cyclical. Would've liked a bit more history of the character, but the movie does a good job of capturing who a factotum is and what he experiences.

pforrest-2 Factotum is slightly redeemed by some good acting from the female characters, and a determined effort not to hide from the basic fact that the main character is an obnoxious, violent, unpleasant man. The trouble is that he is not very interesting, either. None of the characters has much to warm to or be interested by. The only sometimes-sympathetic character seems to have a split personality, which I put down to a crap script rather than anything deep and meaningful in the movie. Well-photographed, and generally professional production all round, but it failed to convince me that there was any worth in its subject matter. Matt Dillon seemed to be impersonating an early Jack Nicholson without an ounce of his roguish charm.

Zigawaguay I wasted 90 minutes for the movie already, so i'll keep it short: the movie has NO story in it. It's about the life of a man losing one job after another. I'm still wondering how you can spend money to make a movie, after getting a script like that! There are so many scenes that i felt like they had to do, just to get enough material together to stretch the movie to 90 minutes. Scenes where they just sit there and no say a word and nothing at all happens. I guess i have seen worse, but it's definitely one of the most boring movies ever! The only reason for the second star is that Matt Dillon still did a good job. Even though there was not much to act.