Watchable if you are interested in the subject

Rating: 6/10 (26 November 2013)

The soloist is an average film, with very few to offers besides a mental illness exploitation story. It begins with Robert Downey character's trying to help Jamie Foxx character's,and there is it. No conflicts in the story at all, or at least decent ones, and the strongest conflicts in the story barely affect the story or the viewer. Is just... cold.
I have nothing against schizophrenic homeless musicians, but that kind of film is not interesting, isn't appellative, unless if you put a lot of effort on it and turn it in a fictional film. As you can see, that is not the case with this film.
I had also major problems with the acting, since that i couldn't feel nothing about the characters. However it maybe kinda unfair to put the fact only in the actors, since that the character development is this film is messy, confused and lazy. Foxx overacted and almost looked like a autistic man instead of a schizophrenic man.
As a plus, this film brings interesting and shocking data about the streets of L.A. The number of homeless persons living in the great L.A streets is disturbingly high. But apart from that, the film is uninteresting. 6.4/10