This is slow and nothing happens. There are no extraordinary performances either. Unless you're a diehard Dillon fan, skip it.

Absolutely the dullest/ monotone/ smoke/ booze/ ****ing movie of all time. Please--this movie was Grade E-.

Awful Awful Awful movie. Don't pay money to see this, or even rent it. It is in no way inspirational like so many people are saying, it has no plot, and it is not funny at all. Nothing happens, and nothing is done in the film to make the nothingness unique.

When a man hits a woman, there's usually a second time. In "Factotum", it's one punch thrown by Henry(Matt Dillon), one thud on the floor by Jan the thud-maker(Lili Taylor). Unlike "Walk the Line"(the whitewashed biopic of country legend Johnny Cash), the filmmaker doesn't want to portray their iconoclastic subject(Charles Bukowski) as a saint; this is an indie, after all, "Factotum" needs street(or at least, Sundance street) cred. But surely Henry Chinaski is prone to more than one violent outburst if he's some unrelenting drunk who can't hold onto a job. No drunk just hits the bottle; he'll hit jukeboxes, glass windows, and the corporeal flesh of bar patrons and fifty-cent whores alike, especially the fifty-cent whores. "Factotum" is episodic; it's nothing more than a meandering anthology of the women Henry happens to be shacked up with as he lurches from bar to crappy job to bar. Lucid or not, Bukowski/Chinaski had enough clarity to write "Factotum", the memoir that is the basis for this agreeable depiction of the infamous poet laureate of the streets. Dillon is good, but not great as Chinaski; or maybe, the filmmaker is at fault; maybe, he fell into temptation to myth-make. In place of genuine angst and other degrees of implosive behavior, he chose to uphold the romantic notion of a writer victimized by stampeding pink elephants; the pachyderms of proof. The elephants need thicker hides. Chinaski needs to be more tortured; more "Bukowski-in-a-china-shop"-like.… Expand

Matt Dillon is brilliant if not a little too pretty for the role. I like the different techniques used by the director to affect meaning. It’s definitely a more literary approach to film which is so refreshing these days. Funny and sad simultaneously.

This is the second worst movie I've ever seen.

An Excellent cinimatic achivement with brave and breaktrough acting from the honest actor Matt Dillion. A phenomenal cast and a instant classic.

a excellent film in every way. supurb job by nervous new man matt dillion. He is still young in his carrer and this could be him at his best. A great story about a average american man who does not care about anyone but himself but eventually learns an importat life lesson that will warm your heart and inspire you. A all together insperational brilliant film.

Like it's been said, "writers cannot be successful if they're unwilling to let their hair hang loose and explore to achieve their best and ultimate inspirations! Indeed, a great stark and hilarious film.

Another cult classic to add to the long list of cult classics from Matt Dillon, undoubtedlly the only icon of his generation and one of the best actors today. The film is ironic, cinic and crude and yet also beautiful, human and funny, simple and complex at the same time. True to Bukowsky's soul and one of the best films of the yaer. A little jewel.