This is Joseph Gordon-Levitt's baby. Directed, written, produced and starring the man himself. Technically he shows flair and promise, but the film itself lacks quite a few essentials. A promiscuous young man loves his life, where he follows the same routine every day: sleep, workout, party and have sex. In between these pivotal aspects, he finds time to watch pornography...to a point where he becomes addicted to it. Unusual subject to portray, especially for a directorial debut. It certainly is a statement! Combining pornography with relationships in order to create a comedy kind of works actually. There are moments where I did laugh, particularly as Jon repeats church confessions every week (where his sins progressively get worse). Gordon-Levitt's direction was extremely competent, I especially loved his quirky traits. Quick cuts of pornography to show his character's constant thinking of it, the repetition of certain scenes to highlight his routine and focussing on certain body parts of women to portray his infatuation with sex. The latter however, I do find incredibly distasteful. Objectifying women for the majority of the runtime was superficial. It was constant. I just didn't warm to it at all. Although, showcasing Johansson was a wise choice, both their acting and chemistry was well demonstrated. For a film that was over 90 minutes long, it really didn't go anywhere. The pace was incredibly slow. So whilst I find Don Jon to be a competent comedy with technical panache, it wasn't a subject that I was particularly fond of and found certain elements to be distasteful.

I have mixed feelings about a movie. The film actually reflects our real life: the guy who addicted to porn because it is easy, accessible and acceptable, the girl, who is shallow, egoistic and think only about herself only. Jon's sister represents most of the people who cannot abandon their phones for five minutes. Jon's parent's demonstrates life of couple after thirty years of marriage: TV and arguments. Also, the movie touches religion, some people think that if they go to church, donate money and confess, all their sins will disappear. I think, it is not a comedy, it is a tragedy movie. It just shows how people are degrading. It made me really upset. At the end they show that there is hope. But it is like a thin thread that can pull main character from his problems.

Starts very well, very impressive for first-time feature writer/director Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Then in the middle it loses a lot of its potential (especially when Scarlett Johansson's character is revealed to be a total bitch, which makes absolutely no sense in Joseph's character wanting to keep her and acting like her dog, apologizing endlessly - even after they already split; It's like he totally lost his balls; I couldn't stand watching her character! Also, he ends up with a woman 20 years older than him, ahm... isn't that a LITTLE weird?). I wanted to like the film, but found myself doing some stuff while watching it.Also, I didn't understand whether Johansson's character was supposed to be Italian with this accent (first I thought she was supposed to be Jewish, but then you see her with a cross in one scene). It's funny that both lead actors, who are Jewish, are playing these very-Christian roles.I liked Tony Danza. Haven't seen him acting in years and he was hilarious in most of the scenes (the best one was when he meets his son's girlfriend for the first time - actually made me LOL). The whole interaction between him and his son (and their accent) is great.

In addition to starring, Joseph Gordon-Levitt makes his debut as a writer/director with 'Don Jon'. At its core, the movie shows a simple man's transition from an unlikable sex-obsessed douche-bag into a somewhat friendlier human being capable of having meaningful relationships. The film is quite fun, but also often repetitive.Jon (Levitt) is a young man in his early 30s who bar-tends at a trendy night club in New Jersey. When he isn't working, he and his greased-back hair work out at the gym, meticulously clean his apartment, watch football with his two friends, and try to have sex with a different girl (who must always rank above an 8 on his hotness scale of 1-10) every day. As he narrates throughout the course of the film, he's very successful at this.Oh yes, there's one more thing. Jon is completely obsessed with watching porn, an activity he does more than once a day. He tells us that porn is and always will be better than the real thing. As he lists his many reasons for this, his speech is interspersed with actual porn footage. Jon has a bad temper too, and doesn't make friends other than his lifetime buds, who just want to see what hot girl he'll score with next.Then, Barbara (Scarlett Johannson) walks into the club, and of course she's a dynamite knockout from top to bottom. But then she speaks, and an unbelievable Jersey accent comes out and ruins everything – except to Jon, of course.Jon puts his best moves on Barbara, but she doesn't budge, at least for a while. She wants to be wined and dined over the course of a month or so first, and Jon is hell- bent on this conquest. However, he's never experienced love, and thinks that Barbara is the one, even though she manipulates him into doing things for her in return for sex. Everything comes to a head when she finds out about his porn obsession, which hasn't slowed down a bit since their exclusive dating. Barbara is so horrified by this that she screams, runs and never comes back.Jon attends school to become something more than a bartender. There, he meets Esther (Julianne Moore), an older widow who's a free spirit and takes a liking to him. She even figures out a way to get through to him about his selfish ways. She gives him a vintage '70s porn to watch, so that he can see the error of his ways and maybe change his thoughts on women and himself.Some of the best scenes in the movie take place at Jon's parent's house, during the weekly family dinners. His dad (Tony Danza) is not above cursing at everyone at the dinner table, and must have the football game on at all times, even when people are talking. Danza shines in this role and garners quite a few laughs.This is a good first film for Levitt, and he can only improve from here. He's brilliant as Jon shows his struggle between his two personalities. As a director, Levitt's camera-work won't win any awards. He tells the story straight, yet repeats himself often. On the other hand, the payoff is good enough in the end to make you glad that you watched the film.