Wait for DVD Release, then Watch on Mute

Rating: 2/10 (5 October 2013)

I saw this last night, and learned sadly that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is not a writer. The trailers more than suggest that this will be an in-your-face movie about a guy with a porn addiction, and in that sense it does not disappoint. But if JGL bothered to go a little deeper (no pun) and tried to actually flesh out his characters instead of making them little more than cardboard cutouts and eye candy, this might've been watchable. It wasn't. I stayed in my seat because I had already paid the full price, but there were so many cringe-worthy moments that I was embarrassed for JGL and everyone who said yes to this movie. The dialogue was so trite and unbelievable--NO ONE TALKS LIKE THAT! Scarlett Johansson's character doesn't seem to have any dignity, as she just goes along with "Don" in whatever he wants to do. Julianne Moore was great, but she seems to have just been tacked on as a device to make Don seem like less of a jerk. Anyway, this just goes to show how far money will get you, because there is no way this would have been green-lit without JGL. It seems he needed an excuse to make out with Scar-Jo and Moore, and hey, who can blame him? But please, for our sake, make something with substance before releasing it to the world. I do hope he gets better if he chooses to keep writing/directing, because I'm a big fan of his acting.