Interesting, but uninspired.

Rating: 7/10 (26 January 2015)

Don is a young man who lives like the prototypical New Jersey guido. His life revolves around porn, trying to score with women, working out, and having dinner with the family, roughly in that order. His lifestyle is designed to please himself, with the possible exception of spending time with the family and going to church, which is also a familial obligation.
He measures success in life by easily quantifiable measures: how much weight can you lift? how many (quantifiably desirable) women can you bed? how many acts of contrition does the priest proscribe?
Played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jon is a simple man. He meets Barbara (Scarlett Johansson), a simple but stunning woman, and decides he has fallen in love. In the course of that relationship, he meets Esther (Julianne Moore), an older, more complex woman, who introduces him to some foreign ideas about relationships and sex. Don learns a few things in the process.
The acting in this film is excellent. The story is interesting, but uninspired. Because the story is about some "shallow" people, there is little passion in "Don Jon". The sexual content will undoubtedly annoy some viewers.