BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

tolboz I think this is a scary movie. If you think of it as a scary movie, you can easily see that it is pretty good and hits its mark. From what it seems, it scared or depressed the pants of a lot of man folk about a possible lonely future and the everlasting pain of unfulfilled love and missed opportunities. If you have not thought about anything of that nature after the movie, well, I guess you should consider yourself lucky for being able to look back and knowing everything turned out the way you wanted in the end. This is a movie that stays with you once it is over, so, kudos to the filmmaker for achieving that.If you look at the story of the movie, acting, cinematography, I would not say that I'm impressed. Like many people mentioned here, it is full of clichés. A guy who is successful in a job that he is passionate about, has money, knows how to cook and more importantly, knows how to narrate while cooking, knows and longs for the magic of those nostalgic moments in music history that seem to impress the girls out of their minds, and finally, knows how to get the girl! Ah yes, he is flawed too, afraid of love, a loner, likes rough sex, etc.. Then we have our lady who is independent, knows how to love, good looking, a princess, brings joy to children, ... oh wait, she falls for the bad boy! Can she change him? We cross our fingers and wait for the happy ending (even though we have heard about the ending from others) but the idiot self destructs again and dumps the girl! Doh! It feels like the filmmaker started with the end and then built a story to get to it. There is not much depth and it feels a bit isolated from everything else around it although they tried to address that by introducing the mother and the kid later in the end. The acting is mediocre at best, for both lead characters.Let's get to the bottom line then. I gave it a 7 at its strength for being able to stir emotions and stay with you longer than most films. It could have been much better though, pity...

dbalats I have not seen much Turkish cinema, except the classic ones (e.g. Guney). However, I recently watched several modern Turkish films, including some excellent ones, such as Gegen die Wand, 3 Monkeys and Babam Ve Oglum, and nationalist rubbish, such as Kurtlar vadisi and Son Osmanli Yandim Ali. I had great expectations for "Issiz adam", because it was signed by the same director who shot "Babam Ve Oglum", which I consider a masterpiece. I was surprised to see a commonplace love story, with nothing special or original. The story was conventional, cinematography was poor and the acting was awful. Okay, Hunal was adequate, but Birkan was completely ridiculous, with this shining, happy-to-be-bride face. The main characters were just caricatures: the professionally successful, heartless, lonely male, who has never known any type of love (come on, at this age?), except temporary relations with whores and the modern, pretty and unpredictable female, who falls in love and behaves like a moron. I do not blame Alper for leaving Ada, I would have left much earlier! The whole movie sucks, but some points were completely funny, such as the close relation of the "bride" with the mother-in-law, which was preserved several years afterward!! It is a pity that a great director like Irmak, spent his potential to produce a cheap drama, just to gain some money from soap opera watchers.

csaltun What I heard from most watchers is that everybody found somethings from their own life in Issiz Adam. They say that the movie is amazing just because catches you from your heart and mind like it tells your own life but not Alper and Ada's.To be honest, I definitely do not have the same feeling. What I think is that the movie is purely simple and that is why everybody finds somethings in it. Most of us try to find the real meaning of the scenes, speeches etc in movies but with Issiz Adam; many people do overlook while trying to find somethings deep.I could not understand what Alper wants also why his actions are always fulsome. What he wants and why? You find no answer in the movie. On the other hand, Ada looks like well experienced on relations with men but how she could fall in love with that bombastic guy? Can we just say that "because the love is somethings like this"? Sorry I do not agree.Well, besides the story and acting, the scenes and songs are really beautiful. So I recommend this movie to the lovers of oldies and to the people who feel lonely in their life.

sonerdumani Instilling vigor to the once-bedridden Turkish movie industry with his original work "Mustafa Hakkinda Her Sey", Cagan Irmak pays homage to the basics of his career in his last installment "Issiz Adam", which once again evolves around the ordinary lives of ordinary people; abandoning the mystic atmosphere set in his previous movie "Ulak". Probably, nobody expected Cagan Irmak to top his story-telling in his highly acclaimed movie "Babam ve Oglum" (and probably they are still right) but surprisingly, it takes only five minutes to realize that "Issiz Adam" races in a completely divergent category with a totally different aim. Setting out to scrutinize the concept of "relationship" in the new era, "Issiz Adam" introduces two main characters; Ada and Alper that anyone can easily relate to and actually, the simplicity of this projection remains as the movie's strongest suit throughout the runtime. On one side of the scale we have Alper, the "isolated man" (not "the lonely man"!), who by definition consumed much out of life and got himself stuck in a corner that is beyond help. It is a dark corner built initially by choice and structured deeply by later habit (feel free to add the "modern life" ingredient) and unfortunately, this corner gives no room for another person to fit in, not even for Ada, who oppositely is willing to give and sacrifice more for love. "Issiz Adam" tells exactly the story of this scale, the constant changing in its balance and its breaking point. The story is further embellished by genuine colloquy (contrary to people who find the dialog fictitious and unrealistic, there are young educated people who are able to integrate words and quotations in a smart way as depicted in the movie), touching music(deference to 70s Turkish music which is sadly followed by a cursory and inattentive soundtrack album) and solid performances (those who denounce the acting should take into account that the movie offers rather tough lines to perform in the silver screen and the actors did their best in this respect).Already a phenomenon in Turkey, "Issiz Adam" is an emotional experience and more of a roller-coaster ride that puts a smile on your face during elevation until the deep fall.