Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

dallasryan Charles Bukowski's essence was found in this movie, by the director, by the whole production and by last, but not least, Matt Dillon (Henry Chinaski is Charles Bukowski). Finally a film that nailed Bukowski's essence dead on! I was very impressed. A very beautiful and funny film. It's funnier in the beginning and starts losing steam towards the end, but still, all around a great film. The final voice over monologue will leave you with chills going up your spine by how spot on Chinaski is about life. Some beautiful moments in the film are moments where they just are, you just observe the characters. Eckhart Tolle fans will appreciate this movie, this is the stuff Eckhart is talking about, these moments that are shown in this film. A movie that was not going to make money, but that was true to the master, the genius in Charles Bukowski. Very well done. Matt Dillon is excellent. Lili Taylor is superb. She is one of the most underrated actresses of our time. Check this film out. Bukowski lovers will love it, and if you don't know who Bukowski is and you love this film, do yourself a favor and go buy one of his books right away. You are in for a big treat, one that will leave you wanting to read more and more of this brilliant man's work.

grondag I have waited a long time to see this movie. IFC finally ran it one night. I thought it would be something like "Barfly" from Barbet Schroeder. Wrong. This film doesn't recreate that underworld of chintzy, dirty, smoke filled, character filled bars you associate with his stories. It also fails to capture that Bukowski attitude that Mickey Rourke did so well in the above mentioned film. That natural smart-ass attitude. Fans of Charles Bukowski will enjoy seeing scenes from his books on screen but those unfamiliar with his books could get the wrong impression about his works. This film looks like just another 'Movie Of The Week" about a drunk and his relationships. If you want to get a better idea about Charles Bukowski's world watch "Barfly".

mtelford Clearly this film was made for a newer generation that may or may not have had an inkling of Charles Bukowski's work. The autobiographical Henry Chinaski character in Bukowski's stories was brilliantly portrayed to perfection by Mickey Rourke in 1987's 'Barfly', also starring Faye Dunaway. Anyone who has seen 'Factotum' should certainly see 'Barfly' to get a better look at how Bukowski wrote his character. 'Factotum' lacks the greasy seediness of Bukowski's screenplay and the fearless hopelessness of his loner hero. The inadvertent humor that bubbles through in the dark desperation of Chinaski's misadventures doesn't work for Dillon as it did so admirably for the overweight filthy blood-soaked Rourke. Rourke's character makes the pain and pleasure of the previous night's misbehavior a place-setting for yet another grueling ugly day in the life of a drunken misanthropic unknown writer. Dillon's character misses these marks in favor of a strutting, handsome, relatively clean-looking wanna-be writer that scarcely passes for any moment in that of Chinaski's story. Dunaway's sleazy heroine Wanda is the perfect complement to the ne'er-do-well Henry. The women in 'Factotum' can't hold a candle to Dunaway's 'distressed goddess' and the use of more profane sexual subject matter in 'Factotum' proves to be more of a crude distraction than a tip of the hat to Bukowski's raw and unapologetic portrayals of dysfunctional relationships. I was stunned at how many of the exact same scenes were used in 'Factotum' (Marisa Tomei buying all the stuff and charging it to the old man is an exact rip-off from 'Barfly').If you want to see the best Bukowski stories on film, see 'Barfly' and 'Love is a Dog From Hell' (which also goes by the title 'Crazy Love').

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.