I'm really overdoing it with the "Meh" titles but that's the feeling I keep having when I leave the theater. "Solitary Man" starring Michael Douglas wasn't a bad film but it certainly wasn't good. The best way to describe it is that it felt like an adaptation of a novel that seemed more focused on hitting all of the plot points in the book and glossed over any depth or feeling. Basically, you just watch a guy who apparently wasn't all that great to start with, make one bad decision after another. There are three or four good premises for movies here but none of them are all that original. I recently saw Daybreakers and loved the premise and wished someone would make a mini-series or one-off TV series of the film. I often feel that way about movies - they have great premises but don't fulfill them. Solitary Man? It never really had the premise to begin with.

If you like Michael Douglas, you'll probably find the film engaging enough. It never really drags even though you've seen it all before (and probably lived through some of it.) 28 Weeks Later's Imogen Poots is the closest thing to a breakout star in the film while Jesse Eisenberg seems like he's digging himself deeper into being typecast. Mary Louise Parker does a nice job in her role and Susan Sarandon is fine (and her cleavage in one scene in particular is so fine it's distracting.)

There was just nothing to hold onto. It was like watching an origin story for Douglas's cad character in "Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past" except it was a melodrama instead of a comedy. I really wanted to like this movie but I just didn't.